Vladimir Putin’s win in Russia’s presidential election has earned him six more years in the Kremlin, but it hasn’t silenced the vocal protest movement against him.
An estimated 15,000 demonstrators gathered Monday night in Moscow’s Pushkin Square, standing in the snow and the cold and calling for a “Russia Without Putin.”
The rally was peaceful, but after the speeches, riot police moved in with force and arrested some 250 people who refused to leave.
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