Topic: War and Peace News - on December 11, 2011 at 1:18:00 PM CET
Anti-Putin protests erupt across Russia
Up to 60,000 demonstrate against alleged vote fraud and demand end to Vladimir Putin's rule in largest rallies in years.
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across Russia against Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule amid signs of swelling anger over a poll won by his ruling United Russia party.
The protesters on Saturday demanded an end to Putin's rule and a rerun of the parliamentary election in the biggest popular protests since those that led to the fall of the Soviet Union.
Protesters waved banners, such as "The rats should go!" and "Swindlers and thieves - give us our elections back!", in cities from the Pacific port of Vladivostok, Perm in Siberia, Arkhangelsk in the Arctic north, in Kaliningrad and St Petersburg in the west, and Karelia in the northwest.
"Nationwide there have been protests in dozens of towns and cities, all across Russia's nine time zones," Al Jazeera's Neave Barker, reported from Moscow.
"They're calling not for revolution, but for political evolution," he said.
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