Protests and Counterprotests in Russia

Thousands Protest Against Putin  After a narrow win by the Prime Minister's party, United Russia, demonstrators take to the streets in Moscow and St. Petersburg
Ivan Sekretarev / AP

In Custody
Russian police officers detain an opposition member after protesters marched along one of the central streets in downtown Moscow, Dec. 5, 2011. A group of several hundred protestors were stopped by riot police and taken away in buses after attempting to march toward the Central Elections Commission near the Kremlin.  

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