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By Donna Welles
Both civilians and those charged with keeping order in the city displayed open hostility on Sunday, May 6, when protesters took to the streets of Moscow in anticipation of Vladimir Putin’s inauguration.
Russian LJ user gyperbol provided [ru] readers with a detailed city map where the events of the day took place, along with the following numbered explanations:
The Russian blogosphere has surged with photographs and videos of the events that followed when protesters clashed with police.
LJ user berendeishche published several photographs of the more peaceful events of the day, including the sit-in.
Twitter users spread around a ridus.ru article [ru], which included several powerful photographs of people being arrested. One video that appeared (see below) on Twitter showed a giant crowd pushing against a police barricade. (More of May 6 Twitter reactions [ru, en] are here.)
Novaya Gazeta’s Facebook page posted photographs from one of their articles [ru]. User Nickolai G. Bondarenko, in a comment, included a link to a YouTube video (see below) that showed police using force.
LJ user berendeishche published several photographs of the more peaceful events of the day, including the sit-in.
Twitter users spread around a ridus.ru article [ru], which included several powerful photographs of people being arrested. One video that appeared (see below) on Twitter showed a giant crowd pushing against a police barricade. (More of May 6 Twitter reactions [ru, en] are here.)
Novaya Gazeta’s Facebook page posted photographs from one of their articles [ru]. User Nickolai G. Bondarenko, in a comment, included a link to a YouTube video (see below) that showed police using force.
RIA Novosti, a state-owned Russian news agency, published an article on Sunday titled, “Moscow Riots Show Anti-Putin Drive Sustainable – Pundits” along with a photo gallery of images from the day.
Many bloggers have already begun to analyze both the immediate and long-term causes of the clash.
Activist Yevgeniya Chirikova discussed [ru] what she viewed as the two immediate causes of Sunday’s events:
LJ user drugoi further condensed [ru] the causes of Sunday’s events:
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Previously published on globalvoices.org and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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