and under the eyes of the great poet pushkin the reclaimed moscow streets more transparency the right to freedom of expression and a crackdown on corruption where the main demands their message was clear from flags and with badges and chanted in chorus. person get asked. some have even brought cake for the president sixty fifth birthday but there was no party. on those and we want him gone and this quickly as possible here is ruled for eighteen years he's been president or prime minister for all of my adult years we believe people in power should face reelection and special dollars not less i mean it's always just that much this is what we're here to support not only who has called people out to ensure the future of the country because we want competition in the upcoming presidential elections. the first degree of social. police also break up protests in putin's hometown of sin petersburg at least one hundred people were arrested across russia many subject to brutal police treatment . along the line now from some petersburg russia correspondent emily show and emily you've been monitor

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and under the eyes of the great poet pushkin they reclaimed more school students more transparency the right to freedom of expression and a crackdown on corruption where their main demands their message was clear from flags and with badges and chanted in chorus. person get asked. some have even brought cake for the president sixty fifth birthday but there was no party that usual. on those and we want him gone on this quickly as possible and here's rule for eighteen years he's been president or prime minister for all of my adult years we believe people in power should face reelection in substantial not less i mean it's always just the most this is what we're here to support and vali who has called people out to ensure the future of the country because we want real competition in the upcoming presidential elections. the first degree murder charge the. police also break up protests in putin's hometown of sim petersburg hundreds were arrested across washington many subjected to brutal place treatment. stores news now in formula one lewis hamilton has taken a huge step towards winning the d

well people are starting to gather now in pushkin square in the center of moscow but it's still quite a small crowd after say the demonstration officially started a few minutes ago but at the moment they seem to be as many journalists here as there are official demonstrators the police presence is fairly minimal as well there are a couple of officers walking around with loudspeakers telling people to disperse that they should be gathering here blocking the sidewalk six cetera i think it's going to be interesting to see how many people are in a valley is called today to come out onto the streets because the cold in a valley and his headquarters of put out is a much more personal call this time than in previous demonstrations this year in the summer and in march people were very very keen to come out and demonstrate against corruption in russia but this time novelli is saying come out on to the streets demonstrate for me to be released from police to tension demonstrate for me to be allowed to campaign properly and demonstrate for me to be allowed to participate in next year's president

was a much smaller affair certainly in moscow with i would say not more than one thousand people in pushkin square they were noisy they were passionate and they were young they were chanting happy birthday to putin they were shouting that they are the power here and they were saying that putin has to go i think though it's safe to say that this could be viewed as a sort of test of no value in these supports that could be viewed as a test of police tactics and snowbound the calls these rallies from detention he's currently serving a twenty day administrative detention period for arranging organizing. an unsanctioned protest he made this much more about himself this rally he was calling people on to the streets to call for. an hour only to himself to be released for him to be allowed to participate in a in a normal campaign process and also for him to be allowed to take place in the elections the presidential elections this year previous demonstrations have been about anti corruption and they seem to have brought more people out onto the streets. a call purely based around about only himself

think there were two notable things from today i was out on the streets of moscow at the rally in pushkin square the first notable thing for me would is the low numbers really there were i think maximum a thousand people on the streets today where is if you compare that to previous novelli demonstrations this year where perhaps ten thousand fifteen thousand people were coming out that was in the summer and the spring those were illegal un sanction demonstrations as well and yet people came out regardless this time it seems not nearly as many he did call the second notable thing that i found was that the police activity the police presence was was considerably dialed down i didn't see want to arrest what. right and we've lost our a challenge i think there he goes ok we're really telling us though about his views on the protests saying that maybe the numbers weren't as big and certainly the police presence wasn't either but this is not something the russian government takes any risks with i guess we shouldn't forget that i'm a persian has been the dominant force in russian politics for seve

they say it's steve clemens from washington, d.c., when it might have actually been, you know, igor pushkin from moscow, and what facebook has said is they've identified one of the troll farms in st. petersburg and they haven't identified the rest. one of the reasons why i don't believe that they of actually done a thorough examination is the only accounts they identified were those ads that are paid for in rubles. now, come on, guys. i think the russian services know how to like maybe use dollars, euros. so we've got a lot more questions. my hope is -- i talk with mark zuckerberg last week. i've known him for a long time. he's obviously built an extraordinary iconic company, but i think that company that more than half of americans look to every day is based upon a level of trust. and i think they need to be extremely forthcoming as well as twitter was in today and we'll ask google to testify as well, that they need to come forward. this is important in terms of america's confidence and the information we receive. >> so much of this story is behind -- is veiled, classified. you mentioned t

they say it's steve clemens from washington, d.c., when it might have actually been, you know, igor pushkin from moscow, and what facebook has said is they've identified one of the troll farms in st. petersburg and they haven't identified the rest. one of the reasons why i don't believe that they of actually done a thorough examination is the only accounts they identified were those ads that are paid for in rubles. now, come on, guys. i think the russian services know how to like maybe use dollars, euros. so we've got a lot more questions. my hope is -- i talk with mark zuckerberg last week. i of nonhim a long time. he's obviously built an extraordinary iconic company, but i think that company that more than half of americans look to every day is based upon a level of trust. and i think they need to be extremely forthcoming as well as twitter was in today and we'll ask google to testify as well, that they need to come forward. this is important in terms of america's confidence and the information we receive. >> so much of this story is behind -- is veiled, classified. you mentioned the 21 s