Police Break Up Anti-Putin protesters in Russia

There no fredom of speech in Russia and there is still many people arrested for political reasons.

Many of opposition activists were arrested by police Sunday as they tried to rally against President Vladimir Putin's government in central St. Petersburg.

Demonstrators were chanting "Russia without Putin!" "What we are seeing now in St. Petersburg resembles a military operation," said Olga Kurnosova, a coordinator of the Other Russia coalition of opposition groups that organized the rally. "It shows the authorities' fear."

Opposition activist Daria Makukhina said that several party activists running for parliament in next Sunday's vote were beaten and detained.

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