Anti-Putin

• Anti-Putin Protests Draw Tens of Thousands

By Lynn Berry and Vladimir Isachenkov The Associated Press

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• December 30, 2011

• Police Rumble with Anti-Putin Protesters

MOSCOW - Police clashed with demonstrators protesting alleged election fraud in Moscow and at least two other major Russian cities on Tuesday as anger boiled over against strongman Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his United Russia party. At least 250 people were detained by police at a protest in downtown Moscow that included flare-type fireworks thrown at a group of pro-Kremlin youths, said city police spokesman Maxim Kolosvetov.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• December 07, 2011

• Anti-Putin Protests Draw Tens of Thousands?

Associated Press MOSCOW -- Tens of thousands of Russians jammed a Moscow avenue Saturday to demand free elections and an end to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule, in the largest show of public outrage since the protests 20 years ago that brought down the Soviet Union. Gone was the political apathy of recent years as many shouted "We are the Power! The demonstration, bigger and better organized than a similar one two weeks ago, and smaller rallies across the country encouraged opposition leaders hoping to sustain a protest movement ignited by a fraud-tainted parliamentary election on Dec. 4.

• New Haven Register
• December 31, 2011

• Anti-Putin Protest Is Broken Up in Russia

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- Police clubbed protesters and dragged them into waiting buses on Saturday in response to a defiant demonstration against the Kremlin in the heart of President Vladimir Putin's hometown. Several thousand members of liberal and leftist groups chanted "Shame!" as they marched down St. Petersburg's main avenue to protest what they said was Russia's roll back from democracy. The demonstration, called the March of Those Who Disagree, was a rare gathering of the country's often fractious opposition.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• March 04, 2007

• Psychotic reaction: Putin puts away dissidents.

Dissenters' psychological profile - Brief article

• Reason
• Vol. 39 Nbr. 11, April 2008

• Kasparov Arrested in Anti-Putin Protest

MOSCOW -- Russian authorities arrested former world chess champion Garry Kasparov on Saturday and sentenced him to five days in prison after he helped lead a protest against President Vladimir Putin that ended in clashes with police. Kasparov, one of President Vladimir Putin's harshest critics, was charged with organizing an unsanctioned procession of at least 1,500 people against Putin, chanting anti-government slogans and resisting arrest, court documents said. His assistant said he was beaten during the demonstration.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• November 25, 2007

• Young Adults: Voters Are Affecting Your Life

Kromin is 21, born in Russia, and a student at Radford University and the American University in Bulgaria. Last Sunday, my Facebook newsfeed was transformed into a stream of anti-Putin propaganda from my college friends back in Russia, who were speaking out against re-electing marionette government for yet another term. That was how I knew the parliamentary election in Russia was going to be different this year.

• Roanoke Times & World News
• December 18, 2011

• Russian Police Detain Anti-Putin Protesters

MOSCOW - Russian police thwarted opposition plans for a protest against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in central Moscow on Sunday, detaining a prominent Kremlin critic and several other government opponents in a show of force. Banned National-Bolshevik Party leader Eduard Limonov was among at least 10 people seen being detained as they tried to protest in Triumph Square.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• June 02, 2009

• Russian Riot Police Beat, Detain Critics at Anti-Putin Rally ; Opposition Heartened by Turnout

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia Riot police beat and detained dozens of anti-Kremlin demonstrators Sunday on a second day of protests that tested the weak opposition's ability to challenge widely popular President Vladimir Putin. As in Moscow a day earlier, only a few thousand people turned out in St. Petersburg to criticize the government. Opposition leaders called that a heartening response in the face of the huge police forces massed against both rallies.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• April 17, 2007

• Kremlin Takes Notice of Anti-Putin Youth Movement Started On Net

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Inspired by the role young Ukrainians played in bringing down their country's corrupt leadership, a handful of St. Petersburg university students this winter quietly began using Internet chat rooms to discuss the prospect of regime change in Russia. They soon had a name, Marching Without Putin, and a Web site. That was enough, they quickly learned, to be sized up as a threat.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• March 28, 2005