Russian youth, leading the two-years long protests against Vladimir Putin, failed to guarantee the participation of adequate amount of people, will try to convey a strong message to the disputed leader on Wednesday through organizing via social media.
Protests, participated by wide-rage segments in Russia, as well as other parts of the world, have been going on since October 4 elections, won by Putin’s party United Russia by 64 percent. However they started to lose ground in time. Now the civil society organizations are working for raising media interest on the issue.
News style protest leaders
Activist lawyer Alelsey Navalniy, "Leftist Front" leader Sergey Udaltsov, young politician Ilya Yasin and TV star Kseniya Sobcak are among the famous young leaders of the protests. Their common point is to emerge on political scene via the protests, especially through using the social media.
Traditional opposition figures
Besides youth and civil society figures, ultra natonal Vladimir Jirinovski’s Liberal Democratic Party and Gennadiy Zyuganov's Communist Party take place in the protests. Disputes among the opposition groups were one of the reasons for the recent protests to lose ground.
Marching for "Freedom for Bolotnaya prisoners”
"Freedom for Bolotnaya prisoners” will be the main slogan of June 12 Russia Day protests in Moscow on Wednesday.
The demonstrators will demand the release of the detainees jailed after May 6 riots at Bolotnaya Square, Moscow.
During Bolotnaya events, 80 injured, while hundreds of protestors were detaineed.
