Russians Mark Revolution Day With Protests
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Russians marked the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution on Sunday with marches, Communist rallies and protests against a parliamentary proposal to scrap what was once the most sacred Soviet holiday.
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Dissatisfied with Kremlin concessions, they plan a national 'day of protest' for February.
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MOSCOW  - Thousands rallied at a government-sponsored demonstration Thursday to hail sweeping electoral changes proposed by President Vladimir Putin to fight terrorism. A much smaller group gathered near parliament to complain the proposals would strip Russians of basic legal rights.
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MOSCOW  - Russians marked the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution on Sunday with marches, Communist rallies and protests against a parliamentary proposal to scrap what was once the most sacred Soviet holiday. Some pro-Kremlin legislators have proposed replacing the Nov. 7 holiday with a new holiday on Nov. 4 to be called National Unity Day. Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, is expected to consider the measure Wednesday in the first of three required votes.
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VIENNA/MOSCOW  - Russia said on Thursday it had protested to Austria over the arrest of a Russian space agency official on suspicion of espionage.
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MOSCOW -- Tens of thousands of people answered a government call and rallied outside the Kremlin yesterday in a show of solidarity against terrorism, nearly a week after militants seized a school in southern Russia in a standoff that claimed more than 350 lives, many of them children.
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Filled with nostalgia and perhaps a little bitterness, a few thousand people gathered Wednesday on the capital's central square to mark the second anniversary of the Orange Revolution, an event that many in ...Comment
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Protesters stormed the government building Tuesday in a volatile southern Russian region amid rising anger over a multiple slaying that led to the detention of the regional president's son-in-law, police said.
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MOSCOW, November 7 (RIA Novosti) - Communists and other Left-wing opposition forces rallied on Theater Square, in Moscow&#39;s center, on the 87th Bolshevik Revolution anniversary.
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Hundreds of thousands of rival  demonstrators massed in 70 Russian towns on Saturday to condemn  or applaud social benefit reforms by President Vladimir Putin's  government, Russian media reported.
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NAZRAN, Russia  - Russian riot police fired warning shots into the air and beat demonstrators who tried to rally on Saturday against alleged vote-rigging in the Muslim region of Ingushetia, a witness said.
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More than 100,000 people are expected in central Moscow at an &quot;anti-terror&quot; rally amid mounting rage across the country over the bloody hostage siege in southern Russia.
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Hundreds of locals rallied in the town  of Stavropol in southern Russia on Tuesday, demanding the  eviction of ethnic Chechens, witnesses and media said, reviving  memories of racial riots in other parts of the country.
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MOSCOW -- Tens of thousands of demonstrators -- many waving banners and flags -- gathered in Moscow&#39;s Red Square Tuesday in a show of unity against terrorism after last week&#39;s hostage-taking at a school in Beslan in southern Russia.
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Russia is observing the second day of national mourning, with the government expecting 110,000 people to protest near the Kremlin against the terrorists who seized a school in Beslan
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MOSCOW  - A ballet depicting Czar Nicholas II dancing in tights is drawing protests from members of the Russian Orthodox Church, which has declared Russia's last czar a saint.
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About 50,000 Muscovites, mostly young people and pensioners, gathered Sunday in the center of the capital city to mark the 87th anniversary of the October Revolution in 1917 leading to the founding of the former Soviet Union.