Posted by
Billy on Monday, February 01, 2010 11:56:45 AM
Police detained up to 100 anti-Kremlin protesters, including leading opposition
figure Boris Nemtsov, in central Moscow on Sunday, despite an appeal by rights
group Amnesty International to let the rally go ahead.
Hundreds of people gathered to protest against what they say is a
long-running Kremlin campaign to dismantle the constitutional right to peaceful
protest, one of the few avenues open to Russia's weak and fragmented opposition.
Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister, is leader of the opposition
group Solidarity and one of the toughest critics of the Kremlin and Prime
Minister Vladimir Putin.
( I admit I don't know too much about this protest however it looks to me and as for awhile that the old Soviet Union isn't dead yet. By that I mean the kind of government running that nation. Read more on this issue
Police detain
opposition leader at anti-Kremlin rally.)