Published May 13, 2012
The opposition demonstration that drew tens of thousands of people in Moscow on May 6 ended in violence that left dozens of riot police and protesters injured and led to mass arrests. Over several subsequent nights, police detained hundreds more opposition activists who strolled through the Russian capital in a nocturnal “people’s march.” VOA’s Jonas Bernstein reports from Moscow that the opposition’s latest tactic takes a page from the global “Occupy” movement.