Large Protests in Russia

[mae]

Something big could be going down in Russia after the recent elections, not unlike in the Arab world. Wikipedia says the largest protests since the fall of the Soviet Union:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Russian_protests

In Russia, the largest protests since the dissolution of the Soviet Union take place, following the allegedly flawed legislative elections.

Live-blog coverage by The New York Times and The Guardian, good in-depth multimedia stuff:

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/201...sts-in-russia/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/201...-putin-protest

And naturally Twitter is all abuzz. The hashtag appears to be #10dec, and there are some startling photos being tweeted: https://twitter.com/#!/search/%2310dec/grid/photos In particular, this one: https://twitter.com/#!/search/%2310d...J1CIAEXx_D.jpg

[Stockerlone]

´Official´ only 30,000 demonstrators are allowed...
But in the TV news... they say 100000 people have come.

There are also 50 000+ policemen present.