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    Russian police disperse opposition protest

    MOSCOW (AP) — Russian police have quickly broken up a protest of a few dozen opposition activists and detained about 30 participants.

    The action, dubbed the "Day of Wrath" was organized by Left Front, whose leader Sergei Udaltsov is currently serving a 15-day jail sentence for taking part in an unsanctioned rally July 31.

    A few dozen protesters gathered Friday outside a subway station near the Kremlin, chanting "Free Sergei Udaltsov!" and some of them have lain down on the ground. Police dispersed the demonstrators within minutes.

    Amnesty International has declared Udaltsov a prisoner of conscience and demanded his immediate release.

    Russia's beleaguered opposition have made regular attempts to hold protests, but authorities have banned their rallies and police move quickly to break them up.

     

    34 comments

    • x3m  •  9 mths ago
      Common, picked a side already. You didn't like when communists suppressed the freedom fighters. So now is the freedom ( I guess ), and you paid for it with your taxpayers money.
      And when they trying to defend their "freedom" from the procommunists you don't like it again.
      You are too picky.
      • OfficerHandsome 9 mths ago
        The group is actual made up of skinheads who are neostalinist and Nazi.(You can see the skinhead in the picture) The leader who was arrested called for attacks on immigration and for ethnic killing.
      • x3m 9 mths ago
        Hey Azadi, it's probably a true what you say. Y! is serving this kind of info under the sauce they think everyone would swallow. But again on another photo an older man, who doesn't look like a skinhead, more like some old bolshevik.
      • Masyanya 9 mths ago
        AZADI, LOL, just because someone has a short haircut doesn't mean he is a nazi!
    • A Yahoo! User  •  9 mths ago
      people have the right to peaceful protest
      • DEN 9 mths ago
        Why can't you peacefully protest in US?
      • Распутин 9 mths ago
        OK using that logic ( as it appears you have never applied for a permit) can you just stop traffic in front of the White House? No, you have permits that need to be approved. Do you really think that protests in America are just formulated and happen? if you are in a public place and will stop traffic ( in the US) you must have a permit you TOO will be arrested. I always find it interesting that AP does not post that in these articles.
      • A Yahoo! User 9 mths ago
        obviously they applied for permit and did not get it. this is the problem. they are not allowed for any kind of protest. and yes i can protest in US... and i have done that.
    • Mr Six  •  9 mths ago
      Just send their action hero Putin into the crowd!
      • Gevork 9 mths ago
        The problem is, he is actually popular, he has a massive following..
        In my opinion, he did his job, he stabilized the mess of a country left to him by Yeltsin, but he didn't suppress corruption enough, he's in on it.
        So, on one hand it's better than before, but on the other, it's still bad.
        More needs to be done, and Putin, might not be the man to do it.
      • Masyanya 9 mths ago
        You may be right, Gevork, but the issue here is that majority will decide who will be the man to do it, and as you said, Putin is the one people want. So the west can cry as much as it wants to, all the propaganda the western media outlets, such as Yahoo or Fox News, spread will not do a thing.
    • Your funeral, GOP.  •  9 mths ago
      Before the Greedy Obtuse Party points out that the Left Front instigated this, keep in mind how much you complain about the western leftists trying to turn America INTO Russia. Okay? You follow? It's this kind of simple logic that you need if you're to stand a chance in 2012.
      • Michael 9 mths ago
        no one complains about leftists trying to turn America into Russia. Go find another strawman to bahtfahk you.
      • Misha 9 mths ago
        Teabaggers do. "Obama is a socialist..."
    • Mr. X  •  9 mths ago
      How many this US propaganda going to be recycled?
    • J C  •  9 mths ago
      People all over the world must take charge and put the government in jail.
      They belong in jail not the people.
      • Bill Derberg 9 mths ago
        One can hope.
      • Gevork 9 mths ago
        That's what the Bolsheviks did. They executed/put the government in jail, and became the new government.
        So before there were the filthy rich, the well-off, and the poor, now it was just the rich and the really poor..
        Putting a government in jail, usually, is only a massive step backwards.
    • Jeffrey  •  9 mths ago
      its NONE of OUR business
    • Bill Derberg  •  9 mths ago
      The opposition must be recognized immediately as the new legitimate government. They must be given an embassy, and a fly zone enforced for them over Russia, for the credibility of the UN.
    • OfficerHandsome  •  9 mths ago
      I think the Russians had enough of Communist and leftism. Considering the group is called left front and the goal is build the USSR these comments are a joke.
    • Распутин  •  9 mths ago
      Wait, people in America that violate laws and do not get permits for violent protests are not arrested too?
    • Isador  •  9 mths ago
      Come on NATO! Go for it! But you won't. You only attack countries that cannot defend themselves.
    • Isador  •  9 mths ago
      What would Stalin have done?
    • Gil  •  9 mths ago
      Ah nice to see puppet master Putin is still in charge....
      Point fingers all you want America....
      Same fate awaits you if you march on Wahington...
    • Misha  •  9 mths ago
      Yeah, Putin's government breaks up protests by Left(!!!!) Front. And that makes him a 'commie'. Right, Repubs?
    • EDWARD B  •  9 mths ago
      This is our future in a new world order of governments.
    • Sf Tparty  •  9 mths ago
      Just another Corrupt government keeping its people down.
    • Jimmy  •  9 mths ago
      ARMAGEDDON will come soon and Russia is part of it........
    • Jimmy  •  9 mths ago
      This is the part of the WORD CIVIL UNREST, the uprising of the world citizens that occur this year, is a cry out for justice to their great leaders who held a long terms of governance, YEAR 2011 IS THE BREAKING OF 3RD SEAL AS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE AT REVELATION 6:5 "THE BLACK HORSE" WHO'S SITTING ON IT HAS A PAIR OF SCALE ON HIS HAND it symbolize JUSTICE.....and a PALE GREEN HORSE will arrive soon and it symbolize wars, famines,pestilences and deaths...........
    • child of the corn  •  9 mths ago
      gee, I didn't think there were that many Ruskies left over there. I thought they were all over here having the US taxpayers support them.
    • RWRNAE  •  9 mths ago
      Now THAT is how you properly handle a disturbance. England please take notes.
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