Police beat demonstrators
Thousands of people gathered at "Chistiye Prudi" in Moscow yesterday protest the results of the Russian parliamentary elections.
According to the Russian opposition, 50% of the winning "Yedinaya Rosia" Party's data are false.
The falsified elections even brought citizens who had never participated in mass events to the streets.
The protest was organized by "Zagolovki" website in response to the protests in St. Petersburg where "V Kontakte" website had organized a rally.
The rally, according to opposition member Ilya Yashchin, was supposed to be organized and end with a peaceful march that would end near the Central Electoral Commission building, but the police applied force and dispersed the rally.
Police have arrested 300 demonstrators, including Yashchin, well-known bloggers, as well as Alexey Navalni and several opposition members fighting against corruption, reports "Comersant".
Several Russian and foreign journalists providing coverage of the action have also been arrested, but the foreign journalists have been released thanks to the combined efforts of Royters and Bloomberg news agencies.
The Russian authorities have instructed to close the streets near the "Great Putin" cul-de-sac in central Moscow and not let any driver enter those streets until December 6.
