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February 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The promise from the newest political figure to enter the tightly
stage-managed world of Russian politics in years came as the country’s
anti-Kremlin opposition prepared to brave sub-zero temperatures for a major
protest in central Moscow on Saturday.
With the mercury hovering at around minus 20 degrees Celsius, organisers have
said they plan to gather up to 50,000 people for a march to a square
opposite the Kremlin where they intend to hold a brief meeting.
Although tens of thousands of people are expected to attend, albeit briefly,
there are signs that the crowd numbers will fall some way short of two big
protests in December which saw up to 80,000 people take to the streets of
Moscow.
The protesters’ demands essentially remain the same: to cancel the allegedly
falsified results of a parliamentary election in December won by Mr Putin’s
ruling United Russia party and to enact serious reform to the country’s
authoritarian political system.
The marchers are also pressing for the Kremlin to release more than forty
people they consider political prisoners such as former oligarch Mikhail
Khodorkovsky who was jailed on fraud charges his supporters believe were
politically-motivated.
Mr Putin’s supporters are organising their own rival rally in his support on
Saturday in another part of Moscow. The strongman Russian politician has
openly mocked the protesters while conceding that there is a need for
serious political change.
An opinion poll released on Friday by a state-run pollster showed he would win
52 per cent of the vote if a presidential election was held now negating the
need for a run-off.
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