'Hold The Election Again': Gorbachev Calls For Russian Vote To Be Annulled As 51,000 Troops Take To Streets To Maintain Order -- Daily Mail
* Protests are continuing for a third day
* 'They must be stopped': Putin promises to put down unsanctioned demos
* At least 250 protesters arrested, including opposition group leader
* Hillary Clinton calls again for full investigation into 'ballot box stuffing'
* 15,000 sign up to opposition rally for Saturday
* Putin formally submits application to run for President in 2012
Pressure grew on Vladimir Putin last night after former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev demanded the Kremlin annuls the weekend elections widely seen to have been rigged.
His call coincided with a claim that 17 per cent of the Prime Minister’s victorious United Russia Party’s vote had been ‘stolen’ from other groups in Sunday’s poll.
It followed a highly organised crackdown by anti-riot troops and 51,000 police, backed by helicopters. That has seen more than 800 democracy demonstrators, including former vice-premier Boris Nemtsov, arrested in Moscow and St Petersburg.
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