Chirokova said the opposition movement should now concentrate its energy on creating its own media to counteract pro-Putin propaganda on state television, and on putting candidates forward for local government elections. “We need to get better organised,” she said.
Russia’s foreign ministry responded angrily on Tuesday to a tweet by US ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul, who said it was “troubling to watch arrests of peaceful demonstrators at Pushkin Square.” The ministry replied saltily from its own account: “The police on Pushkin [Square] were many times more humane than what we saw during the breaking up of Occupy Wall Street and tent camps in Europe.”
William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, meanwhile called on Tuesday for allegations of electoral fraud during the presidential vote to be “thoroughly investigated.” “A Russia with greater political freedoms, including the registration of political parties, freedom of assembly and freedom of the media, is in the interests of Russians and of the wider world,” he added.
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