MORE TYRANNICAL THUGGERY FROM PUTIN: PREVENTS TWO PRO-DEMOCRACY MARCHES ORGANIZED BY KASPAROV

BBC: Police halt anti-Kremlin rallies

Police have prevented two marches by anti-government demonstrators in Moscow and St Petersburg, detaining at least 100 protesters.

Police trucks ringed two Moscow squares where protesters were to gather, and officers arrested dozens of people.

In St Petersburg, police blocked 100 protesters from marching on the city's main thoroughfare, arresting 10 people.

The protests were the latest organised by former chess champion Garry Kasparov's Other Russia movement.

Other Russia has tried to stage several protests it calls dissenters' marches.

Among those arrested on Sunday was Mr Kasparov's fellow leader, Eduard Limonov.

The Moscow authorities had warned that Sunday's demonstration, which had not been given permission, would be "firmly stopped by law enforcement officers within the framework of the law".

The latest protests follow the founding on Saturday of a new umbrella movement for Kremlin opponents, called Solidarity.

• RUSSIAN IS A TRUE FOE; THEY AID IRAN AND SYRIA AND CHAVEZ AND ARE ATTEMPTING TO GET A MONOPOLY ON EU ENERGY SO THEY CAN GET A STRANGLEHOLD ON EUROPE.

• PUTIN - WHO HAS MURDERED MANY PRO-DEMOCRACY OPPONENTS - MUST BE STOPPED, NOT APPEASED.