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to rally the opposition and it up fighting it out between each other in city hall for a group of aleksey now by any one they might have had russia's most liberal square in the central moscow to protest but the question still very much a life is does the new street opposition know how to square this circle the march fifth the rally food that liberal values to the test to what extent will they be a the law. police are saying when a school but i call in you to steer tense so to sleep here we are in our city and we can do whatever we want we are not leaving we are not leaving an hour after the sanctioned rally was supposed to wrap up some leaders were calling on people to put up town center occupy the square every chole muscovites are already well familiar with followed police a scorching protest as to the much arresting the most resilient ones refused to leave among them. were due to what almost everyone these days wants changes no one wants a revolution but there's a minority who are trying to make this revolution but they don't understand better evolution is like a thunderstorm and turn i

to the most coveted sporting events in the world to climb european championship gold medal winning aleksey ecumenical lost to poland adams roots in the men's individual competition admitted that the moscow say the tournament was special but that it was still just another event in a run up to the olympics. yes i lost to the polish dancer but this doesn't mean anything because we have an intensive training changeable and there are plenty of matches we don't prepare ourselves for any specific tournament like the moscow saber we're preparing for the big one but how that pans out we'll see. on saturday russia's individual say defenses managed to claim that privilege in the men's final nickel like a wild pension. g.m.p. live in a heart contest and in the women's final sophia the league successfully defended her twenty one title against china's child on chan but china got the chance to put things right against russia in the men's team competition final it was a cage affair to start with the team russia gaining a slight upper hand but china soon got back in the match putting the russian fences on

some of the gathering spiraled out of control and police had to move in and update now from archies aleksey at a shop ski in central moscow i like to say why so many arrests. were from the first small groups who didn't see anything wrong in this rally just like another one of those rallies we've been seeing for the last three or four months ever since the problem is people in december were pretty much positive not aggressive people gathering their two boys their protest against the election no one hundred eighty surprise of the fact that it was even fourteen gauge victory in this vote there but still there were there to protest against. they voted to protest against the prime minister directly the opposition leaders were speaking from the stage occluding the third place presidential candidate. who was also there until one moment when people already started dispersing from the square from the bush discuss where one of the opposition politicians said that he would not leave the square until putin resigned and then several hundred people followed his call and decided to stage a sitting protest

arrested when some refused orders to disperse after the demonstration was and let's now talk charges aleksey at a ski. tell us a little bit more about how the rally way. well essentially it wasn't very much different from the mass rallies we've been witnessing for the last three or four months in russia since the fall eventually vote in december only that maybe this rally was not as big as usual with around twenty thousand people attending it essentially it was all the same the opposition leader speaking from the stage to the crowd including the third place presidential candidate. who was also there to address the crowd with his views on the future of the country now there was a general feeling among the crowd and also those people who were writing online in protest of the election results they had no surprise at all that. came to victory at this election still they were protesting against this vote and demanding that the prime minister the president elect should step down the protests in the street in the. square went very peacefully and people even started to leave the square and heading t

fine for any misconduct or violation of the of the procedure of holding this particular mass rally aleksei referring to at the end type of protesters but a lot of those were happy that who won and they also went out to the streets to bank. certainly some proportion of those happy for putting on his victory gather he had my national square where i'm standing right now around fifteen thousand people were here but this was not like a political rally just a kilometer from the at the. this was more like a celebration party with pop stars singing from the stage and people cheering. who managed to get this overwhelming victory in fact this seems pretty much the mind of twenty four hours before that on sunday night when the station's close then prime minister the president elect arrived here personally and greeted the crowd and thanked them in a very emotional manner for enabling this overwhelming victory in the first round making a second round runoff on march the twenty fifth completely impossible now you mentioned earlier what about the other candidates how did they take the outcome of the pope