An anti-Kremlin rally in central Moscow on Saturday could spill over into violence, march organisers and their opponents said on Thursday, the Reuters news agency reports.
Popularity: 2% [?]
April 13, 2007Mass protest action took place in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek with thousands of opposition activists calling on President Kurmanbek Bakiyev to resign, the Reuters news agency reports.
Popularity: 1% [?]
April 12, 2007Authorities in an eastern Ukrainian city banned outdoor and television advertisements featuring Soviet dictator Josef Stalin after protests from rights groups and nationalists, The Associated Press news agency reports.
Popularity: 1% [?]
March 27, 2007Riot police wielding truncheons broke up an opposition rally in a central Russian city on Saturday, detaining dozens of activists and beating some of them, The Associated Press news agency reports.
Popularity: 1% [?]
March 26, 2007Thousands of opposition protesters gathered this weekend in Minsk, Belarus, to mark the anniversary of the short-lived Belarussian republic in 1918, the UPI news agency reports.
Popularity: 2% [?]
Russian police detained 50 protesters overnight as 5000 demonstrated in Saint Petersburg against President Vladimir Putin’s leadership.
Popularity: 2% [?]
March 3, 2007Moscow city hall denied permission to hold a march to commemorate journalists killed in Russia over the past years. The event was to take place next Sunday, the radio station Ekho Moskvy reports.
Popularity: 2% [?]
December 12, 2006Protesters from a radical youth organization rallied outside Russia’s lower house of parliament Tuesday, slamming lawmakers for a series of electoral changes that have markedly strengthened the Kremlin’s hold over the country’s political life, The Associated Press reports.
Popularity: 2% [?]
Russia’s parliament has warned that carrying out the death sentence imposed on former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein could provoke a new wave of violence in Iraq.
Popularity: 4% [?]
November 16, 2006According to the official statement of The Russian Anti-Fascist Front, a rally against fascism will be held in Moscow on the National Unity Day.
The meeting is sanctioned officially and will gather 2,000 members of the organization, uniting the SPS and Yabloko parties. It should be noticed that none of the nationalists attempts to get a permission for the march on November 4 had any success.
Popularity: 2% [?]
November 2, 2006
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