Protesters gathered in Moscow’s Pushkin Square on Saturday for a sanctioned rally demanding the ousting of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin: ‘Demands for Putin’s resignation have been voiced at rallies before, but this time it was the main slogan,‘ commented Lev Pomonarev.  The Moscow Times counts ‘up to 2,000‘ people on the back of photographs of the rally (the police estimated 300), most other major news sources count 500.  The march comes just as the Duma moved to change the law on protests, which would prohibit anyone undergoing proceedings for disorderly behavior from organizing rallies; Pomonarev says it will have little effect.  Moscow’s original decision to allow 200 Strategy 31 protesters to gather at the end of this month has been revoked, on grounds that requests for more people to be allowed to join were ‘provocation‘.  Gay rights activist Nikolai Alexeyev is reportedly suing veteran human rights champion Lyudmila Alexeyeva for defamation: ‘Who is this Alexeyev to be suing me?‘  Wikileaks says it has ‘material on Russia, but not as much as we would like‘.