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February 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Around 50,000 people have said they’ll take to the city streets on Saturday to demand free and democratic presidential elections next month in Russia. They are expected to gather at 0900 GMT and march to the city’s Bolotnaya Square.
Throughout last week, volunteers distributed leaflets calling on people to join the march. Held just a month before the presidential election, the rally will be the third of its kind sanctioned by city authorities since accusations of widespread irregularities in December’s State Duma elections sparked public outrage.
But despite the bitter Russian cold – forecasts say temperatures could drop as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius – this rally isn’t the only demonstration of the day. On Pushkinskaya Square, the Liberal-Democratic Party and its leader presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky will gather for their own meeting, but will later join the masses on Bolotnaya.
Another presidential hopeful, businessman Mikhail Prokhorov, said he would join the rally, but would not be making a speech.
Candidate Sergey Mironov of the Fair Russia party initially planned to be at Bolotnaya Square, but changed his mind in the last moment. He said he decided not to attend after Prokhorov and the Communist leader Gennady Zuyganov announced they would not be speaking at the event.
Map of Central Moscow with the route of the February 4 march and rally for fair elections
The event’s organizers have raised around 100 thousand US dollars, and will use the money to set up a stage, arrange light and sound equipment and provide basic comforts like hot drinks and access to public bathrooms for all those in attendance.
But if that wasn’t enough to make February 4th the biggest rally day in Russia, a pro-government meeting is also on the agenda. Supporters of the Patriots of Russia movement will gather on Poklonnaya Hill to – in their own words – “protest against the so-called Orange moods in the country and show people we have a lot to lose.”
“Orange” refers to Ukraine’s Orange Revolution of late 2004 and early 2005. Back then, mass political protests overtook the country following presidential elections which people claimed were riddled with corruption, voter intimidation and electoral fraud. Critics slammed the events as foreign-sponsored coup when a rent-a-crowd protest was used to oust a legitimate government.
Organizers of the rally state that they are pro-order rather than pro-Putin. Unsurprisingly, the prime minister and presidential hopeful voiced his support for the event, saying he shared its sentiments.
“The people heading to Poklonnaya Hill are going there to state their sincere anti-Orange position. I am grateful to them and I share their views,” he told Interfax news agency.
Around nine thousand police officers will be on duty in the Russian capital throughout the day, and metal detectors have been set up at various points.
Moscow, however, is not the only city to see political action. Cities like St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan and dozens more, from the country’s Far East to the westernmost city of Kaliningrad are setting up for demonstrations of one sort or another.
Since mass protests started in Russian in December, the government has taken steps to address the people’s demands. It has launched a raft of reforms of the country’s political system, including re-introducing the direct election of regional governors and simplifying the process of forming of new political parties.
It has also funded an initiative to equip the majority of polling stations in Russia with webcams which will broadcast real-time video on polling day via the Internet. The idea is to allow anyone who wants to to act as a citizen observer from the comfort of their own home.
RT will be providing live updates from all the events in the Russian capital, so check back at 0900 GMT (1300 local time).
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