About 300 demonstrators gathered Sunday to remember Anna Politkovskaya and other journalists who had been killed in Russia. Participants in the unauthorized rally in downtown Moscow held pictures of Politkovskaya and other reporters who have been killed, and chanted "Down with Police State!" before observing a moment of silence behind heavy police cordons.
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AP reports that more than 2,000 people held a rare anti-government rally in Moscow on Saturday, accusing the Kremlin of growing authoritarianism and protesting against electoral law changes. Authorities, however, pulled opposition activists off buses and trains, and hundreds were detained to prevent them from attending, activists said.
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AP reported that Russia's Foreign Ministry criticized the United States for raising the plight of an opposition leader in Belarus in the United Nations Security Council, saying the move violated U.N procedures.
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Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion who is now a Russian opposition leader, said Tuesday that the police had raided his office to try to disrupt a planned protest against President Vladimir Putin, writes The International Herald Tribune.
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The British ambassador suffers months of harassment and BBC service in Moscow mysteriously goes off the air after the Litvinenko murder, The Times report.
The pro-Kremlin youth movement Nashi has been accused of a systematic campaign of intimidation against the British ambassador in Moscow, Tony Brenton, following his speech at a Russian opposition meeting in July. At the time President Putin accused Brenton of interfering in Russia’s domestic affairs, after the envoy spoke at the Other Russia opposition gathering held before the G8 summit in St Petersburg. more...
Nashi (Ours) has been formed in March 2005 to "put an end to the unnatural union of oligarchs and anti-Semites, liberals and Nazis". However, Nashi itself has often been compared to organizations like the Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) or the Komsomol. more...
The Russians are also suspected of a hand in the disruption of the BBC’s Russian Service FM broadcasts in Moscow and St Petersburg, at the height of coverage of the Litvinenko poisoning. more...
