The Dissenters' March was a series of Russian opposition protests that took place on December 16, 2006 in Moscow, on March 3, 2007 in Saint Petersburg, on March 24, 2007 in Nizhny Novgorod, on April 14, 2007 for the second time in Moscow, on April 15, 2007 again in Saint Petersburg, on May 18, 2007 in Samara, and on May 19, 2007 in Chelyabinsk. Some of them were featured in various media outlets.
Protesters at the meeting near Gostiny Dvor, Saint Petersburg, March 3, 2007
Sergey Gulyayev with a megaphone.
Dispersing of demonstrators, teenager is carrying sign Berezovsky, we are with you!. Organizers of the rally have considered that this slogan was a provocation carried out by pro-government youth organizations.
Some of the 3000 police officers cordoning off the square in Saint Petersburg
The Other Russia (coalition)
The Other Russia, sometimes cited as Another Russia, was an umbrella coalition (2006–2008/2009/2010) that gathered opponents of President Vladimir Putin and was known as an organizer of Dissenters' Marches. The coalition brought together representatives from a wide variety of political and human rights movements, liberals, nationalists, socialists and communists, as well as individual citizens. The last Dissenters' March took place in 2008.
15,000 people in St. Petersburg on March 3, 2007. Dissenters' Marches were main events of the Other Russia.
Leaders of the Other Russia Andrei Dmitriev and Garry Kasparov on march