MOSCOW — Last Sunday, tens of thousands turned out across Russia to protest rampant corruption in the upper echelons of power. It was a thunderous roar that Russians were not happy with President Vladimir Putin’s government.
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Russian police officers patrol on the Red Square in central Moscow on April 2, 2017, as Russian opposition promised protests after police detained hundreds of people during anti-corruption rallies.Russsian President Vladimir Putin on March 30 insisted that participants in unauthorised protests must be punished after anti-corruption rallies across the country at the weekend ended in mass arrests. More than 1,000 people were arrested in Moscow on March 26 during an anti-corruption protest, one of the largest unauthorised rallies to take place during Putin's 17 years in power as president or prime minister. / AFP PHOTO / VASILY MAXIMOV
