Riot police break up anti-Putin protests in Russia

[steve2470]

Source: USA Today

MOSCOW – Hundreds of people ran through the streets of Moscow on Sunday to escape heavily armed riot police who broke up a protest of Vladimir Putin's return to power.

Demonstrators crying "Down with Putin!" and "Fascists!" overturned several metal detectors and threw rocks and bottles at riot police as tear gas wafted through the air on the eve of Putin's inauguration.

"The whole point of the protest was not to allow a thief to enter the Kremlin, to try to stop the inauguration," Slava Tigrov, a retail specialist in his 20s, said as he stood with a megaphone near a bridge leading to the Kremlin.

As many as 70,000 people had arrived for a government-sanctioned procession down central Moscow that ended at Bolotnaya Square, just across the bridge from the Kremlin.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-05-06/russia-putin-protests/54790076/1

[maddezmom]

1. More than 400 arrested in anti-Putin protests

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57428775/more-than-400-arrested-in-anti-putin-protests/

[MrMickeysMom]

2. I hear they've arrested over 400 so far....

Sounds like the majority didn't vote for you, Putey....

[PatrynXX]

3. eh. sounds like a fairly good day for the cops in the usa against ows

said On a good day. on a bad day it's much much worse.