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"en.20111214.22.3-173-000"2
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"Mr President, on Saturday, a chant echoed right across Russia as people declared ‘Putin is a thief, Putin is a thief’. The regime did its very best to scare people into not attending the protests. There were massive threats of repression, with rumours of extra troops being brought into Moscow. The schools even opened on Saturday to try to prevent people from coming, but nonetheless people courageously came out and protested, in their tens and hundreds of thousands, because of the depth of anger and opposition at the blatant election rigging. One hundred thousand turned up in Moscow and ten thousand in St Petersburg, and there were up to a hundred other significant protests in other cities.
The announcement by President Medvedev of an investigation into election rigging is a very transparent attempt to divert the movement. The same is true of the managed disagreement at the top of society now, supposedly to give the impression of a democratic discussion. In my opinion, these diversions should be rejected by the movement and it should continue to fight for free and fair elections where genuine opposition parties can register and stand.
A real alternative to the parties of the oligarchs and the nationalist and populist forces is needed. That means building a mass workers’ party to fight for the overthrow of the oligarchs and capitalism and for democratic socialist change."@en1
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