News
Russia’s Opposition Movement Spreads Far Beyond Moscow
On the western edge of Siberia, almost 2,000 kilometers east of Moscow, more and more Russians speaking their minds on elections and on democracy.
9
A poster for Vladimir Putin's All Russia People's Front movement in downtown Yekaterinburg. January 31, 2012. (VOA-Y. Weeks)
10
The Church on Blood in Yekaterinburg is built on the exact spot where a Bolshevik firing squad shot and killed Czar Nicholas II and his family in 1918. January 30, 2012. (VOA-Y. Weeks)
11
Georgi Persky represents Fair Russia, the opposition party that won in parliamentary elections in Yekaterinburg in December. He says Russia's new independent political thinking is not limited to Moscow. January 31, 2012. (VOA-Y. Weeks)
12
Construction is going on around a monument to Russia's first president, Boris Yeltsin, who was once Yekaterinburg's Communist boss. January 30, 2012. (VOA-Y. Weeks)