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| Media | Newspaper - Los Angeles Times |
| News Date | Saturday, July 7, 2007 10:20:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Opposition groups are hoping to defeat Putin's pick in next year's presidential election. Authorities seem edgy.
By David Holley, Times Staff Writer
July 7, 2007
MOSCOW — Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, now an opposition leader engaged in a high-stakes political match with Russian President Vladimir V. Putin, gamely put the best face on a modest turnout at a recent protest rally.
"There could have been many more people here if the authorities did not oppress people so much," Kasparov told a crowd of about 1,500 at the mid-June rally in a downtown Moscow park. "The authorities feel instinctively that if they allow people to march, there will be 1,000, then 10,000, then 20,000, and then everyone will come to the street."
City officials had refused permission for a march to follow the rally, and there were more police in attendance than protesters. In April, police arrested hundreds of demonstrators from the same coalition, Other Russia, when they sought to stage an unauthorized march.
Kasparov and his allies appear at times to be trying to trigger what some have lightheartedly dubbed a "White Knight" revolution — a democratic ousting of the incumbent power structure following in the footsteps of Georgia's 2003 Rose Revolution and Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution. |
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