Tension growing in Moscow
The final results of the Russian parliamentary elections will be announced on Friday, and the Russian authorities are preparing for the next couple of days. Citizens will hold massive protests on the weekend with the demand to declare the results of the elections as invalid.
Russian police officers and security officials are controlling bloggers and social networks, yet tens of thousands of citizens have already applied to participate in the protests.
A part of the Red Square in Moscow has been closed down, and the municipality has started construction near the statue of Karl Marx where demonstrators had received the right to hold a rally.
News.am writes that the special Derzhinsky detachments of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs will block the central parts of Moscow on the weekend.
Russian bloggers are spreading the news that the Chechen Regiment will also enter Moscow, reports "Comersant"'s journalist Oleg Kashin, mentioning that the Chechen Regiment is waiting in the north-eastern part of the capital.
The Chechen President's press speaker has declared that that is absurd.
Russian newspapers report that Moscow is in the focal point of unpredictable events.
