Thousands Of Democracy Campaigners Protest In Russia -- MSNBC
Update at 8:30 a.m. ET: Moscow Times says the anti-voter fraud demonstration in Moscow has thinned but several thousand people seem "determined to stay to the very end." The protest is officially allowed until 9 a.m. ET.
Updated at 8:20 a.m. ET: Moscow police say "about 10" people have bee arrested at the anti-vote fraud demonstration in a central square and will be charged with administrative violations, The Moscow Times reports. A reporter for the paper says there is a sizable contingent of security personnel in riot gear -- estimated at about 1,000 officers and 30 trucks -- just south of the square.
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