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February 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Putin’s supporters marched through central Moscow on Thursday under the slogan “Protect the Country,” ahead of the March 4 presidential election.
Local media report that some 120,000 people are expected to join the pro-Putin demonstration, which began around 11:30 a.m. Moscow time (0730 GMT).
Putin may meet his supporters and address them in a speech near the Luzhniki Arena in Moscow.
On February 18, more than 50,000 people attended similar rallies in European Russia, Siberia and the Far East to express support for Putin’s candidacy for a historic third term in the Kremlin.
Russian news agencies say at least 10,000 people attended a rally in St. Petersburg while 12,000 people turned out in the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk.
Rallies attended by at least 10,000 people also took place in cities, including Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod, and Novosibirsk.
Russians are taking to the streets with increasing regularity ahead of the March 4 election as the opposition and pro-Putin camp seek to outdo each other with competing rallies.
The opposition, however, has accused authorities of using state’s resources to encourage people to show up at Putin rallies.
The opposition has also planned a rival rally set on February 26 in the Capital Moscow, hoping for a turnout of tens of thousands to form a human chain around the capital’s inner ring road.
Polls suggest that Putin will easily win the presidential elections as his four registered opponents have failed in staging a significant challenge.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is reportedly due to become prime minister under a prospective Putin presidency in March 2012 — a job swap bitterly criticized by the opposition.
Putin’s presidency ended in 2008 after two consecutive terms because the Russian constitution banned him from running for a third consecutive term.
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