- 11:30 22/02/2012
How the number of people taking part in mass street protests is worked out in today's world
- 13:37 21/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 21 (RIA Novosti)
After the Moscow authorities rejected an application for an opposition rally on February 26, the For Fair Elections movement announced it would stage a flash mob on Sunday, a co-organizer of the opposition protests and the head of the Left Front movement, Sergei Udaltsov, said on Tuesday.
- 07:18 20/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 20 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will on Monday meet with the leaders of unregistered political parties to discuss political reform in the country.
- 11:45 17/02/2012 Moscow, 17 February (RIA Novosti)
Liberal political reforms proposed by outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev after the mass protests in December are to be rolled back, the Gazeta.ru news portal said Friday.
- 20:07 14/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 14 (RIA Novosti)
Following mass vote protests in Russia, prime minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin on Tuesday called for the creation of a speakers' corner like in London's Hyde Park in Russia, so that people would have a place to openly express their ideas.
- 15:55 04/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 4 (RIA Novosti)
Over a hundred thousand people braved the bitter cold at two major rallies in downtown Moscow on Saturday as a power play between champions of political liberalization and supporters of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin continues to unfold.
- 02:23 04/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 4 (RIA Novosti)
About 9,000 law enforcement officers will ensure public order and security at mass rallies downtown Moscow on Saturday.
- 16:44 02/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 2 (Alexei Korolyov, RIA Novosti)
Russia’s liberal Yabloko party has asked prosecutors to investigate reports that state employees are being coerced into attending a rally in Moscow this weekend in support of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s presidency bid.
- 11:57 01/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 1 (RIA Novosti)
A vice governor of Russia's far eastern Primorye region has been sacked after threatening to “thrash” opposition groups, Kommersant daily reported on Wednesday.
- 14:34 31/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 31 (RIA Novosti)
Two offices of the ruling United Russia party in northeastern Moscow were pelted with Molotov cocktails overnight, a law enforcement source said on Tuesday.
- 20:33 30/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 30 (RIA Novosti)
St. Petersburg’s city government approved on Monday a demonstration on February 4 to demand a fair presidential vote.
- 20:11 29/01/2012
Hundreds of cars flying white ribbons drove around a major Moscow thoroughfare on Sunday, demanding fair presidential elections in March.
- 18:37 29/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 29 (Alexei Korolyov, RIA Novosti)
Hundreds of cars flying white ribbons - a symbol of Russia's protest movement - drove around a major Moscow thoroughfare on Sunday to demand a fair presidential vote in March.
- 15:00 27/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 27 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's Federal Migration Service and Central Election Commission are to set up a special group to monitor the situation in Dagestan and St Petersburg after a high level of irregularities were found in voter registration lists there, Election Committee head Vladimir Churov said on Friday.
- 21:46 26/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 26 (RIA Novosti)
The city of Moscow has authorized three more rallies for February 4, the same day the opposition will hold a 50,000-strong rally against vote fraud in December parliamentary elections on Bolotnaya Square in downtown Moscow, Deputy Mayor Alexander Gorbenko said on Thursday.
- 17:05 26/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 26 (RIA Novosti, Maria Kuchma)
Not amused by the creativity of liberal activists in the South Siberian city of Barnaul, police have moved to punish the organizers of toy demonstrations that took place in the city earlier this month in the wake of nationwide election protests.
- 15:49 26/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 26 (RIA Novosti)
A rally in support of Russian Prime Minister Vladmir Putin will be held in Moscow on February 4, the day when a 50,000-strong opposition march will gather in downtown Moscow.
- 14:32 26/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 26 (RIA Novosti)
Russians are divided in their views over the legitimacy of polls in the country but those divisions are probably not because of the latest parliamentary elections, the head of the state-run VTsIOM pollster, Valery Fyodorov, said on Thursday.
- 02:44 26/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 26 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow’s City Hall has authorized a 50,000-strong opposition march followed by a rally in downtown Moscow to protest the results of the recent parliamentary elections, Deputy Mayor Alexander Gorbenko said on Thursday.
- 22:40 25/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 25 (RIA Novosti)
Russian opposition activists said that they are ready to meet with President Dmitry Medvedev, who earlier said he was “ready for talks.”
- 13:50 25/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 25 (RIA Novosti)
The pro-Kremlin United Russia party is planning to meet with political parties, opposition leaders and civic groups to discuss how to restore public trust in the country's elections, State Duma Deputy Speaker Oleg Morozov said on Wednesday.
- 11:44 25/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 25 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has replaced the official in charge of examining applications to hold demonstrations in the city, a source at city hall told RIA Novosti.
- 17:36 24/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 24 (RIA Novosti)
A Russian opposition leader vowed to organize a new rally against vote fraud on February 26 if the government fails to meet protester demands at a demonstration scheduled on February 4, Boris Nemtsov, the leader of the Solidarity party, told RIA Novosti Tuesday.
- 19:55 23/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 23 (RIA Novosti)
Police in Russia’s Siberian city of Irkutsk have held an exercise to disperse an unsanctioned rally, the Russian Interior Ministry said in a statement on its website on Monday morning that it later withdrew, Lenta.ru reported.
- 23:35 22/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 22 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s former finance minister Alexei Kudrin, who declared his readiness to mediate in negotiations with the authorities of the opposition, said that Vladimir Putin feel suspicious about those people, who call themselves leaders of protesters.
- 11:32 21/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 21 (RIA Novosti)
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has sharply criticized Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for his nationalist comment about Georgian-born novelist Boris Akunin, Georgia Online news web site reported on Friday.
- 09:40 21/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 21 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow authorities dismissed on Friday a plan, proposed by critics of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, to hold a 50,000-strong march on February 4, RIA Novosti reported.
- 18:24 20/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 20 (RIA Novosti)
The Moscow authorities have received a request from Russian nationalist movements to authorize a rally for 50,000 people in central Moscow on February 4, a deputy mayor of the Russian capital said.
- 02:24 20/01/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, January 20 (RIA Novosti)
A meeting with opposition delegates has not been included in Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s agenda yet, but the premier is ready for such a dialog, his spokesman said.
- 18:26 19/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 19 (Marc Bennetts for RIA Novosti)
Demonstrations against alleged electoral fraud in favor of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s party are being discredited by the involvement of ultra-nationalist groups, rights activists said on Thursday.
- 21:19 18/01/2012 By Maria Kuchma and Alexei Korolyov
Following last month’s massive street rallies challenging his rule, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he did not see a suitable partner to discuss the issues consuming the protesters.
- 19:49 18/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 18
The recent and upcoming anti-government protests are a sign of Russia’s irreversible political transformation and “will not be stifled,” First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said Wednesday.
- 09:53 18/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 18 (RIA Novosti)
Russian prosecutors have charged nearly 100 people with administrative offences over voting fraud at last month’s parliamentary elections.
- 16:41 17/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 17 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s decision not to run for a second presidential term triggered December’s mass protests, as people felt they did not have a resolute leader, Federal Agency for Youth Affairs chief Vasily Yakemenko said on Tuesday.
- 19:17 16/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 16 (RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko) –
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is trying to swing undecided voters in his favor by accusing the opposition of lacking a solid political platform, but the strategy may backfire as his own campaign is vague in details and can hardly be sold to disillusioned voters, political analysts said.
- 13:35 16/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 16 (RIA Novosti)
An advisory council to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has backed ombudsman Vladimir Lukin to mediate talks between the Kremlin and the anti-government protest movement.
- 18:38 14/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 14 (RIA Novosti)
About 350 people participated on Saturday in a rally organized by Yabloko party on Chistye Prudy in Moscow; a party member and the organizer of the event, Maiya Zavialova, was detained by the police for exceeding the agreed number of participants, a spokesperson for the Moscow police said.
- 21:50 13/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 13 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s election chief said on Friday that he was “offended” by insults against his person following the country’s disputed parliamentary polls.
- 14:46 13/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 13 (RIA Novosti)
Authorities in Moscow have said they will not force schoolchildren to sit for tests during the next anti-government demonstration next month.
- 10:35 13/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 13 (RIA Novosti)
Former finance minister Alexei Kudrin has said he is holding talks to galvanize Russia’s opposition, as presidential elections approach.
- 17:15 07/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 7 (RIA Novosti)
The head of Russia’s powerful Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, told the country’s leaders on Saturday to listen to and act on the demands voiced at recent mass protests over alleged vote rigging.
- 15:01 06/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 6 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian opposition will only be able to put forward a presidential candidate popular enough to challenge Vladimir Putin’s rule “in one and half or even two years at earliest," former Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin wrote in his blog on the website of the opposition Ekho Moskvy radio station on Friday.
- 13:00 05/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 5 (RIA Novosti)
Activist who took part in the recent opposition rallies across Russia should set up coordination centers for better dialogue with the authorities, Left Front opposition movement leader Sergei Udaltsov told Ekho Moskvy radio on Thursday.
- 22:45 04/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 4 (RIA Novosti)
A leader of Russia’s opposition movement, the Leftist Front, Sergei Udaltsov was released on Wednesday from jail after serving a 25-day detention term, a police source said.
- 22:12 03/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 3 (RIA Novosti)
Russian opposition forces have set up a working group which will begin collecting signatures on a petition demanding that the National Supreme Court annuls the outcome of the Dec. 4 parliamentary elections, Mikhail Shneider, member of Solidarity opposition movement said on Tuesday.
- 13:38 03/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 3 (RIA Novosti)
As Russia enters 2012, the year of presidential elections, the majority of Russians expect protests and political unrest but no coup in the country, the Levada pollster website said.
- 21:20 30/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 30 (RIA Novosti)
The leaders of the For Fair Elections movement plan to organize another big demonstration in Moscow on February 4 or 5, Solidarity leader Boris Nemtsov told RIA Novosti.
- 09:06 29/12/2011 MEXICO CITY, December 29 (RIA Novosti)
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has blamed the United States for being behind the recent wave of protests in Russia against the outcome of the December 4 parliamentary elections.
- 15:06 27/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 27 (RIA Novosti)
Most of the people from last week’s protests in Moscow say they will definitely attend new rallies to press demands for new parliamentary elections and wholesale liberalizing reform in Russia, turning the heat up on Prime Minister Putin and his plans to return to the Kremlin, according to a public opinion survey released on Tuesday.
- 14:35 27/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 27 (RIA Novosti)
A review of the results of Russia's December 4 parliamentary elections is impossible, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.
- 13:43 27/12/2011
- 13:41 27/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 27 (RIA Novosti)
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused “certain forces” of trying to delegitimize elections in Russia, days after the largest protests against his rule.
- 11:16 27/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 27 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s ex-finance minister, Alexei Kudrin, who addressed demonstrators at Saturday’s vote protest in Moscow, said that he was ready to be a mediator in talks between the Kremlin and opposition activists, Kudrin told the Vedomosti business daily newspaper in an interview published Tuesday.
- 05:11 27/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 27 (RIA Novosti)
Magistrate Olga Borovkova, infamous among Russian protestors for sentencing some of their leaders, in an interview published on Tuesday denied facing any pressure from higher officials while handling such cases.
- 16:05 25/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 25 (RIA Novosti)
Tens of thousands of protesters rallied in Moscow Saturday to press demands for new parliamentary elections and wholesale liberalizing reform in Russia, turning the temperature up on Vladimir Putin and his plans to return to the Kremlin.
- 15:18 25/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 25 (RIA Novosti)
Protesters who rallied in Moscow on Saturday against the alleged mass electoral fraud at the December 4 parliamentary elections have no leaders and lack unity in their ranks, members of the ruling United Russia party said on Sunday.
- 05:59 25/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 25 (RIA Novosti)
Tens of thousands of protesters rallied on downtown Moscow’s Sakharov Avenue on Saturday to demand a rerun of parliamentary elections they claimed had been rigged, as well as liberal reforms in Russia, turning the temperature up on Vladimir Putin and his plans to return to the Kremlin.
- 04:53 25/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 25 (RIA Novosti)
Geodesic engineer Nikolai Pomeshchenko, asked by RIA Novosti to use his professional equipment to count the number of protesters at Saturday’s rally, said at least 56,000 people attended the event.
- 02:14 25/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 25 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow police ensured public order and security at Saturday’s protest rally in the center of the Russian capital in full, the police press service said.
- 22:50 24/12/2011
During the second round of mass protests, demonstrators and opposition leaders called for new parliamentary elections and the resignation of top officials.
- 22:14 24/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 24 (RIA Novosti)
Tens of thousands of protesters rallied in Moscow Saturday to press demands for new parliamentary elections and wholesale liberalizing reform in Russia, turning the temperature up on Vladimir Putin and his plans to return to the Kremlin.
- 21:20 24/12/2011 By Andrei Zolotov Jr. , RIA Novosti
The mass rally on Saturday, that brought tens of thousands of Muscovites onto the streets for the second time in two weeks, marks a new step in the open-ended development of the political situation in Russia, experts said.
- 20:22 24/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 24 (RIA Novosti)
Dozens of protesters demanding new parliamentary elections and genuine political reform were detained across Russian on Saturday.
- 18:49 24/12/2011
Civil protest “For fair elections” took place on Moscow’s Sakharov prospect on 24 December. This rally follows protests at Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square two weeks ago, at which participants demanded the cancellation of the results of parliamentary elections on December 4.
- 18:23 24/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 24 (RIA Novosti)
Protesters at a massive rally in central Moscow adopted a resolution on Saturday calling for new and fair elections and open registration for all opposition parties by February 2012.
- 16:59 24/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 24 (RIA Novosti)
Former finance minister Alexei Kudrin addressed a mass demonstration in Moscow on Saturday against recent elections but called on participants to pursue their demands for political change in an organized way and steer well clear of "revolution."
- 15:33 24/12/2011
A rally For Fair Elections began in downtown Moscow on Sakharov Avenue.
- 14:36 24/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 24 (RIA Novosti)
Thousands of people rallied Saturday in central Moscow to protest recent parliamentary elections they say were dishonest and to press their demands for political reform in Russia.
- 12:02 24/12/2011 VLADIVOSTOK, December 24 (RIA Novosti)
Some 200 people took to the streets in Russia’s Far East city of Khabarovsk in spite of the snowstorm and twenty degrees below on Saturday to protest against alleged electoral fraud in favor of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party, local police said.
- 11:16 24/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 24 (RIA Novosti)
Former finance minister Alexei Kudrin expressed sympathy Saturday with protesters angry over recent elections and called for non-violent but sweeping “transformation” of Russian politics and society.
- 01:55 24/12/2011 MOSCOW, Dec. 23 (RIA Novosti)
Russia braced for another mass protest in the heart of the capital Saturday by voters angry over recent elections won by Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party, while the Kremlin countered critics’ complaints with stunning calls of its own for dramatic political reform.
- 00:07 24/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novsoti)
RIA Novosti’s International News Service will cover Saturday’s protest rally in Moscow in English, Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Arabic and Persian languages. The coverage of the rally over alleged fraud at the December 4 legislative elections will include video reports in these languages from the site of the rally.
- 22:47 23/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novosti)
Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov plans to take part in Saturday's protest in Moscow against alleged vote fraud, his spokesperson said on Friday.
- 20:00 23/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novosti)
The head of Russia's Orthodox Church warned on Friday of the dangers of social networks as Moscow braced for a mass internet-inspired protest against alleged vote fraud.
- 12:52 23/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novosti)
The presidential administration's first deputy head Vladislav Surkov supported Russia’s protest rallies, calling the country’s political system “corrupt” and “stupid” in an interview with the Izvestia daily newspaper, published on Friday.
- 12:55 22/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti)
President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday the protests that followed the December 4 parliamentary elections were evidence of the development of Russia's democracy.
- 11:50 21/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 21 (RIA Novosti)
Police on Wednesday detained about 20 people during a rally in front of the parliament building in Moscow.
- 11:32 21/12/2011
Alexei Navalny, a Russian anti-corruption crusader, who was detained during post-election protests in Moscow on December 5, was released on Wednesday after serving a 15-day administrative arrest in a detention facility. He was greeted by dozens of journalists and supporters.
- 10:29 21/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 21 (RIA Novosti)
Russian investigators have opened 53 criminal cases into irregularities in the run-up to and during the December 4 parliamentary elections, a report says.
- 09:46 21/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 21 (RIA Novosti)
Russian investigators said on Wednesday they have opened 53 criminal cases into irregularities in the run-up to and during the December 4 parliamentary elections.
- 05:06 21/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 21 (RIA Novosti)
Anti-corruption activist and top blogger Alexei Navalny and opposition leader Ilya Yashin, detained during post-election protests in Moscow, were released on Wednesday after serving 15-day administrative arrests.
- 15:19 19/12/2011 Alexei Korolyov for RIA Novosti
A notorious Russian hacker known only as Hell launched an attack on bestselling writer Boris Akunin after the novelist got involved in vote fraud protests in Moscow.
- 15:42 18/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 18 (RIA Novosti)
Over 3,000 supporters of Russia's Communist Party gathered in the center of Moscow on Sunday to protest against the alleged mass election fraud at the December 4 parliamentary elections.
- 09:15 18/12/2011 VLADIVOSTOK, December 18 (RIA Novosti)
Several dozen people gathered in the Russian Pacific port city of Vladivostok on Sunday to protest against alleged mass electoral fraud at the December 4 parliamentary poll and elections to the regional legislature.
- 17:41 17/12/2011 GORKI (Moscow region), December 17 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in a Friday’s telephone conversation with his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama said that Washington’s comments over Russia’s allegedly rigged parliamentary polls were inadmissible, Russian president said on Saturday.
- 16:28 17/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 17 (RIA Novosti)
Protests over alleged mass electoral fraud at the December 4 parliamentary elections continued in Moscow on Saturday, as more than a thousand people attended a rally near the Kremlin.
- 16:21 17/12/2011
Thousands of Russians gathered in downtown Moscow at Bolotnaya Square to protest against alleged fraud at the December 4 parliamentary elections in Russia. The authorized rally was organized by opposition party Yabloko.
- 07:41 17/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 17 (RIA Novosti)
A Russian opposition party, Yabloko, will on Saturday hold an authorized protest rally in downtown Moscow to discuss alleged fraud at the December 4 parliamentary elections in Russia.
- 18:06 15/12/2011 By Marc Bennetts
Russian state television, long known for omitting coverage of political dissent in news broadcasts, moved recently into new territory when it covered the largest anti-government protests here for nearly two decades.
- 16:39 15/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 15 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said he is ready to leave office if he loses support.
- 15:57 15/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 15 (RIA Novosti)
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin poked fun at Russian opposition activists he claimed were funded by Western governments, by quoting from a character in Rudyard Kipling's children's classic "Jungle Book."
- 15:45 15/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 15 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's ex-finance minister Alexei Kudrin criticized on Thursday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's remarks regarding the white ribbons worn by protesters at recent nationwide rallies against alleged electoral fraud.
- 14:23 15/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 15 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin responded to criticism from U.S. senator John McCain, who last week warned Putin of an Arab Spring, approaching to Russia in the wake of mass protests against allegedly rigged polls.
- 14:04 15/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 15 (RIA Novosti)
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin urged Russians on Thursday not to participacte in the "destabilization" of the country, in his first public comments on last weekend's mass protests against alleged electoral fraud in favor of his United Russia party.
- 12:41 15/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 15 (RIA Novosti)
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused opposition leaders of insulting demonstrators at last week's protests over alleged electoral fraud.
- 05:29 15/12/2011 WASHINGTON, December 15 (RIA Novosti)
Russian election protests did not come from the outside, U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday in her first public response to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s accusations of interfering in Russia’s domestic affairs.
- 20:55 14/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 14 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow city authorities gave on Wednesday permission for a 50,000-strong rally to protest against alleged election fraud in favor of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's party, officials said
- 13:24 14/12/2011
When you see a large crowd of people, it is rather difficult to determine how many people are there
How many people do you think there are inside the box?
- 12:38 14/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 14 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s foreign minister has said the results of a probe into alleged fraud at the December 4 parliamentary elections will be open to the “international community.”
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