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March 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Maksim Vitorgan, 39, an actor who worked as such a monitor, said: “I witnessed a mass humiliation of human dignity; a great, grey mass of construction and other workers being transported from one polling station to another [to vote multiple times].”
He added: “They were denied the right to be treated as people. And we are all insulted and humiliated by this.”
The election observers promised to pursue prosecutions over the fraud they had seen.
Predictably, the fieriest speech came from the shaven-headed leader of the Left Front, Sergei Udaltsov, who called for a million-man march and led the crowd in chants of “Russia without Putin!”
Police later detained Mr Udaltsov for attempting to lead his followers to Pushkin Square, where he and several hundred others were arrested at a demonstration on Monday.
Speaking backstage, Ilya Ponomaryov, an MP and protest coordinator who brought his 11-year-old daughter to the demonstration, told The Sunday Telegraph: “We must be the government’s constant nightmare and build up to a crescendo of protests at the time of Putin’s inauguration in early May.”
Among those on stage were several young people who became independent deputies in municipal elections that ran parallel with the presidential vote, and who urged others to stand in forthcoming polls.
The crowd was also asked to support political prisoners, including Alexei Kozlov, a Moscow businessman prosecuted on allegedly trumped up fraud charges who will be in court today. “We have a gulag,” said Zoya Svetova, an activist. “We don’t have Stalin, but we have Putin.”
Many at the microphone spoke of the need for an action plan. “We have only one way out, one chance,” said Kseniya Sobchak, 30, a glamorous television presenter whose father was Mr Putin’s mentor and who is reputed to be the god-daughter of the president-elect. “We all know what we’re against; now we must show what we are for, and show it very quickly: for judicial reform, for a free media, for a social lift for young people, for wide-ranging political reform.”
However, there was little detail on how these goals might be achieved, and people in the crowd struggled to identifiy concrete steps forward.
“We’ll have to come to more protests until Putin leaves,” said Tatyana Galchuk, 51, a health worker. “And the opposition needs to unite in some way.”
Boris Borodin, 75, a former military technician, predicted an economic crisis would erode Mr Putin’s authority before the end of his six year term. “There is nothing that Putin can do that will satisfy me,” said Mr Borodin. “He is by nature a thief and a usurper. He cannot change his essence.”
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