May 26, 2013
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The 2011–13 Russian protests first began as a response to the 2011 Russian legislative election process, which many Russian and foreign journalists, political activists and members of the public considered to be flawed, and the protests continued despite the fact that the Central Election Commission later said that only 11.5% official reports could be confirmed to be true. Similarly, the Russian Investigation Committee of the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation reported that most of the videos available on the internet purporting to show vote manipulation "appeared to be edited".
On 10 December 2011, after a week of small-scale demonstrations, Russia saw some of the biggest protests in Moscow since the 1990s. The focus of the protests have been the ruling party, United Russia, and its leader Vladimir Putin, the current president, previous primer minister, and previous two-term president, who announced his intention to run again for President in 2012. Another round of large protests took place on 24 December 2011. These protests were named "For Fair Elections" and their organizers set up the movement of the same name.
(via Freebase)
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