Russian police have dispersed anti-Putin demonstrators that gathered near the Kremlin in Moscow on a "Day of Wrath," detaining 30 protesters.
Russian authorities had denied permission to rally on Friday, and suggested a different venue, but members of a radical opposition group began their march to the presidential administration building to hand over their demands, chanting "Elections are a farce" and "Russia without Putin," a Press TV correspondent reported from Moscow.
They called for direct governor elections, registration of opposition parties, local self-government and an end to rising prices.
"The more people come, the better. I'm ready to fight against Putin's regime and its lawlessness," Semyon Zon-Zam from the Solidarnost Movement told the Press TV reporter.
Some protesters held black items as a symbol of deep distrust of government authorities.
The protest was organized by social and human rights groups, and the Left Front movement -- whose leader, Sergei Udaltsov, is currently serving a 15-day jail sentence for taking part in an unsanctioned rally on July 31.
Amnesty International has declared Udaltsov "a prisoner of conscience" and demanded his release.
Analysts say the opposition seeks to provoke the authorities and gain additional publicity.
When Day of Wrath members sought permission to gather in the past, their requests were often turned down by Moscow's authorities. Every time the protests went ahead irrespective of an official permission, they were broken up by the police.
Russia is scheduled to hold parliamentary elections in early December.
Kremlin critics Vladimir Milov, Boris Nemtsov, Mikhail Kasyanov and Vladimir Ryzhkov, who addressed delegates from 50 regions on July 3, announced that they would appeal in court the decision of the Justice Ministry not to register their party, calling for an active boycott of the December parliamentary elections at a Moscow conference of the Party of People's Freedom.
taken from http://www.presstv.ir/detail/193692.html
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