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June 12, 2012 Tens of thousands of Russians marched through Moscow amid a stream of banners demanding President Vladimir Putin step down and challenging new laws designed to curb protest against his strongly centralized rule. Protesters chanting “Russia without Putin!” and “Putin is a thief!” moved in pouring rain down a central boulevard and packed a square in the first big opposition rally since the former KGB officer’s return to the Kremlin for a six-year term on May 7. “We propose to rid the country of this usurper who wants to rob us and rule for life,” former deputy premier Boris Nemtsov told the crowd, repeating accusations that Putin, still unrivalled in popularity by any opposition figure, had ‘stolen’ March presidential elections by fraud. Source

June 12, 2012

Tens of thousands of Russians marched through Moscow amid a stream of banners demanding President Vladimir Putin step down and challenging new laws designed to curb protest against his strongly centralized rule.

Protesters chanting “Russia without Putin!” and “Putin is a thief!” moved in pouring rain down a central boulevard and packed a square in the first big opposition rally since the former KGB officer’s return to the Kremlin for a six-year term on May 7.

“We propose to rid the country of this usurper who wants to rob us and rule for life,” former deputy premier Boris Nemtsov told the crowd, repeating accusations that Putin, still unrivalled in popularity by any opposition figure, had ‘stolen’ March presidential elections by fraud.

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