Reports count attendance at a Kaliningrad rally this weekend at around 10,000-12,000, as protesters gathered to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin over living costs and unemployment.  Solidarity leader Boris Nemtsov said he saw the protest as ‘a precursor to events likely to roll out over Russia‘.  A rally in central Moscow on Saturday, organized to protest a perceived Kremlin campaign to dismantle the constitutional right to peaceful protest, saw up to 100 (The Other Russia says 160) anti-Kremlin protesters detained, including Nemtsov. 82-year-old Soviet-era activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva reportedly had a police escort for the protest to prevent her from being arrested.  The BBC has some video footage.  The Moscow Times is careful to insist that ‘Putin’s popularity remains high.‘