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Police detain 14 at anti-Putin sit-in in Gorky Park

Agence France-PresseMay 10, 2013 16:20
Police detained 14 people including opposition politician Ilya Yashin at a sit-in protest against President Vladimir Putin Wednesday in Moscow's popular Gorky Park. Police swiftly detained protestors including Yashin, who regularly speaks at protest rallies, after they attempted to hold a sit-in protest at the park. "They put me into a police van for clapping," Yashin wrote on Twitter, saying 12 detainees were taken to a police station. Two other protestors were detained separately, Left Front radical group wrote on Twitter.

Cameron to visit Russia on Friday for Syria talks with Putin

Agence France-PresseMay 8, 2013 14:17
British Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Wednesday he will fly to the Russian resort of Sochi on Friday to discuss the Syrian conflict with President Vladimir Putin. "There's an urgent need to start a proper negotiation to force a political transition and to bring this conflict to an end, and I will be flying to Sochi on Friday to meet with President Putin to discuss this issue further," Cameron told the House of Commons. kjl-ar/fb

Kerry calls on Putin to 'find common ground' on Syria

Agence France-PresseMay 7, 2013 11:41
US Secretary of State John Kerry called on Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday to help find common ground over the conflict in Syria, saying Moscow and Washington had shared interests in the country. "The United States really believes that we share some very significant common interests on Syria," Kerry told Putin at the start of talks in the Kremlin. "It is my hope that we will be able to dig into that a little bit. And see if we can find common ground." jkb-sjw/zak/bm

Russian opposition seek to revive protests against Putin

May 7, 2013 11:35
By Timothy Heritage MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian protestors unfurled a huge banner demanding the release of "political prisoners" on Monday, at the start of a day of protest against President Vladimir Putin intended to revive their flagging opposition movement. The banner, declaring "Freedom for the May 6 prisoners!", rippled over three floors at the top of a high-rise apartment block on Novy Arbat, one of Moscow's busiest streets. It was quickly taken down and one man was arrested.

Russian opposition marches in Moscow on eve of bigger rally

May 7, 2013 11:35
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Hundreds of Russian opposition protesters marched in Moscow on Sunday, a day before a bigger rally planned to mark the anniversary of a demonstration that ended in clashes with police and several prosecutions. The rally on May 6 last year, the eve of Vladimir Putin's inauguration for a third presidential term, has became a touchstone for discontent over the detention of 17 protesters on public order offences.

Russian opposition struggles to revive anti-Putin protests

May 7, 2013 11:16
By Steve Gutterman and Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thousands of Russians demanded an end to President Vladimir Putin's long rule and said they would not let him "turn the country into another GULAG" at a rally on Monday intended to revive flagging protests. But many Russians are frustrated by the opposition's failure to turn big rallies last year into a sustained challenge to Putin, and the joyous mood of the initial protests has given way to a subdued realization that his grip on power has tightened.

Kerry arrives in Russia on mission to mend relations

Agence France-PresseMay 7, 2013 03:00
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Moscow Tuesday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, seeking to restore frayed US-Russia ties and win Moscow's support on the war in Syria. Kerry is making his first trip to Russia since taking over as the chief US diplomat in February, on what is one of his most diplomatically delicate missions to date. The visit coincides with the first anniversary of Putin's return to the Kremlin for a historic third term on May 7, 2012 which heralded a new chill in relations between Moscow and Washington.

Tens of thousands rally against Putin in Moscow

Agence France-PresseMay 6, 2013 11:46
Tens of thousands of people turned out for a protest in central Moscow on Monday marking one year since a demonstration ahead of Vladimir Putin's Kremlin inauguration ended in mass arrests, organisers said. "The whole square is full. There are tens of thousands of us," prominent opposition figure Boris Nemtsov told a huge sea of people crammed into Bolotnaya Square across the Moscow river from the Kremlin. Police however said only 6,000 were present at the start. am-sjw/zak/gd

Kerry to meet Putin in break with protocol

Agence France-PresseMay 6, 2013 11:30
US Secretary of State John Kerry is to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday at the start of his first visit to Moscow in a rare break with normal protocol, US officials said Monday. "It is quite important that Secretary Kerry will have a substantial, full meeting with President Putin," a senior State Department official said, asking to remain anonymous.

Russian marchers mark bloody anti-Putin protest

Agence France-PresseMay 5, 2013 11:45
About a thousand Muscovites rallied Sunday in memory of a bloody protest one year ago in which more than 400 were detained after showing their frustration with Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency. The "Spring March of Freedom" was held almost a year to the day since Russian authorities deployed baton-wielding interior ministry troops to disperse a crowd of tens of thousands on the eve of Putin's May 7 swearing-in ceremony. Dozens of demonstrators and several police officers ended up in hospital in the ensuing clashes.
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