Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has said Sunday’s Russian parliamentary election was marred by fraud and has called for a re-run, according to BBC News.
“The country’s leaders must admit there were numerous falsifications and rigging and the results do not reflect the people’s will,” he said.
Protesters were planning new rallies for Saturday as arrests in Tuesday’s crackdown in reached 800 across Russia. Key figures in the protest movement are starting 15-day jail sentences.
State TV channels have ignored the protests, giving coverage only to rallies in support of the government.
The centre of Moscow saw its biggest protest against the rule of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his allies in years on Monday, when several thousand people came out to condemn widely reported fraud at Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
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