Anti-Putin protestors in Russia are using social media to organize demonstrations, continuing a worldwide trend in leveraging the Internet to effect political change.
Monday’s protest in Moscow over alleged election fraud drew 5,000 people, a record number made possible by Facebook, Twitter and the Russian blogosphere.
Videos of ballot-stuffing and repeat voting flooded social media sites after the weekend’s election, casting doubt on the legitimacy of Vladimir Putin‘s presidency and angering citizens who demand a parliamentary re-election.
Bloggers like Alexei Navalny, who is serving a 15-day jail sentence for helping organize street protests, are quickly becoming icons for anti-Putin demonstrators who continue to protest in major cities despite the threat of arrest.
“Overall in Russia, the dissatisfaction with the current government is growing and the Internet is playing an important role in this,” posted Ivan Klyuzhin, a Russian citizen and physics graduate student at the University of British Columbia
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