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TODAY: Anti-Putin vehicular protest in Moscow; toy protestors defiant; pro-Putin rallies mushroom; Left Front deputy plans to sue police for alleged assault; Nashi’s March 5 rally permit granted fraudulently, says Udaltsov. Medvedev aide prefers Kudrin to his current employer as Premier; Putin unveils major re-armament drive on the basis of international security concerns; Latvia says [...]

TODAY: Independent TV channel Dozhd faces probe; accusations of receiving foreign money fly; is Voronin the engine behind media censure?  Prokhorov defends his independence; EU resolution urges fair elections; vote underway already for isolated citizens. Moscow authorities reject request for opposition rally permit; pro-Putin march rallies troops from afar.  Expelled French journalist can return, say [...]

A faux news broadcast imagining Putin’s arrest and trial might have proved more than just an exercise in video wish fulfillment and sharp use of visual effects.  With two million hits in two days  – it seems to have captured the public imagination.   Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via [...]

TODAY: Video of Putin ‘arrest’ takes cyberspace by storm; rumors fly of charity head coerced into filming advert backing Prime Minister’s presidential campaign; Nashi’s time up? Navalny bank under investigation. Election monitor evicted; toy protests disallowed. Gorbachev expresses concerns over Ekho Moskvy shakeup; censorship fears grow; culture and the election race; blow for HIV funding.  [...]

Last weekend’s rally in the city of Astrakhan offered a sign of the opposition movement’s inner steel but was, it must be said, lackluster in comparison to parallel rallies in other regional centers.  If it did unite the diaspora of the opposition in Astrakhan, this amounted predominantly to the ‘controlled’ opposition.  By far the largest [...]

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Moscow might have been the focal point of the weekend’s opposition rallies but there is proof that Russia’s smaller cities do not lie in regional oblivion, impervious to the tremors shaking the foundations of the Kremlin.  On Saturday, I had the fortune to witness an opposition rally in the Southern Russian city of Astrakhan. Situated [...]

TODAY: Yavlinsky’s expulsion from presidential race confirmed; Churov attempts to re-brand himself; OSCE says webcams insufficient; UR stood up by opposition leaders; Siberian activists try playful new protest.  Reluctant Medvedev; Shuvalov claims would pardon Khodorkovsky; Russian cases continue to dominate ECHR’s workload.  NATO meeting on missile defense in jeopardy; archivist turns activist; the various woes [...]

TODAY:  Putin criticizes nationalism whilst promoting stricter immigration laws; Prokhorov laments Yabloko candidate’s possible expulsion.  Teenage thief killed in police custody; inmate dies after being denied medical treatment; Medvedev skips human rights meeting for fourth time. Alleged Russian plan to sell fighter jets to Syria raises concern in US; McFaul’s bumpy landing in Moscow. Putin’s [...]

In a fascinating development, long-time Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov has announced that the party has formed a solidarity pact with Left Front, headed by opposition Sergei Udaltsov, who most recently rose to fame while serving a 25-day prison sentence following the first major protests (our gratitude to a reader that sent us the story).  [...]