Putin Opponents to Keep Rallies Up as Presidency Vote Nears
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Russian middle-class protests will continue against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as he tries to shore up his support less than three months before a presidential election.
Opposition leaders got permission yesterday to follow up Moscow’s biggest ever anti-Putin demonstration on Dec. 10 with a rally of as many as 50,000 people on Dec. 24. That would be double the size of the crowd police estimated last week. Putin in a televised call-in show today denied fraud in this month’s parliamentary vote and warned his opponents against destabilizing the country.