Russia Protests Summary Box
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WHO: Thousands of Russian retirees and military veterans.
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Judges were in the firing line at the  Athens Games Tuesday after angry gymnastics fans mutinied and  Russia drafted a fierce protest to Olympics bosses.
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Japan protested to Moscow after a Russian military plane intruded into Japanese air space over the Izu Islands south of Tokyo on Saturday, a Japanese foreign ministry official said.
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Russia summoned a U.S. diplomat to protest at a Pentagon claim that Russian soldiers spirited away hundreds of tons of explosives from a site in Iraq just before the U.S. invasion, Interfax news agency said on Friday.
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An opposition Web site in the  southern Russian region of Ingushetia accused local authorities  on Thursday of trying to shut it down after it promoted  protests and published details of kidnaps and murders.
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Police detained opposition activists Tuesday in a provincial city at a protest that Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov said was thwarted by Russian authorities intent on silencing dissent
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Hundreds of thousands take to the streets across Russia in rallies for and against controversial welfare reform.
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Europe&#39;s show of unity with Vladimir Putin was shattered yesterday when Russia accused the European Union of &#39;blasphemy&#39; for demanding an explanation of how the Beslan school hostage crisis ended in massacre.
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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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Japan protested to Moscow after a Russian  military plane intruded into Japanese air space over the Izu  Islands south of Tokyo on Saturday, a Japanese foreign ministry  official said.
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Russia warns Europe and US against recognising independent state
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The outcry over the police beating of  a leader of a budding movement to uphold motoristsâ rights has caused an unexpected burst of civic activism across Russia.
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Thousands of poor Russians demonstrated across Russia on Saturday as part of a campaign of protest against abolition of some benefits that has dented President Vladimir Putin's popularity.
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Even the very young gave the Hitler salute...MOSCOW (Der Spiegel) - Thousands of Russian neo-Nazis marched through the Russian capital on National Unity Day this weekend, joined by pensioners, students and families. Experts believe Russia's far right gives President Vladimir Putin a welcome justification for his authoritarian political style. Russian skinheads, hooligans, nationalists, fascists and racists gathered on Moscow's Kutosovsky Prospect to mark National Unity Day on Sunday. They waved flags as they marched in single file along the banks of the Moskva River and to the Ukraina Hotel, across from the White House, the seat of Russia's government.Russia for Russians! "Russia for Russians!" the demonstrators shouted in unison, followed by slogans such as "For a Slavic, Russian nation!" or "Slavic, Russian, Powerful!" The demonstrators stretched out their arms in the Hitler salute between slogans. Their loud shouts of "Slavic Russia!" were followed by the sound of drum rolls. The roughly 2,000 demonstrators from the ultra-nationalist scene, who were holding the Russian March for the third year in a row, are a mixed and varied bunch - a pool of discontented groups and individuals from all classes of society. Elderly women handing out badly photocopied flyers, young female students wearing make-up and high-heeled boots, and parents with small children in colorful snowsuits can all be seen next to skinheads wearing black leather coats, combat boots, SS uniforms or bomber jackets and displaying swastikas. Even young children were giving the Hitler salute.
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Russia's opposition pledges to go ahead with a Moscow protest against President Putin despite a ban.
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At least 2,000 Russian  protesters broke through police lines and blocked St  Petersburg's main thoroughfare on Saturday, in an unusually  bold show of opposition to the Kremlin.
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ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia  - Hundreds of protesters occupied the regional administration headquarters in a southern Russian province Tuesday in an outpouring of public anger over a multiple slaying linked to the local president's son-in-law.