Photo Gallery The Battle for Moscow
Police officers detain protesters at Moscow's Pushkinskaya Square on March 5, 2012. Dozens of people were reportedly roughly handled while being arrested at the protest over Vladimir Putin's victory in presidential elections.
Protesters demonstrate for fair elections on the Moscow shopping avenue, New Arbat, on March 10. It was the second major rally by opponents of the Kremlin since the recent presidential election.
Several thousand protesters took part in the March 10 demonstration in Moscow on the New Arbat Avenue.
After the recent Russian presidential election, Putin seemed emboldened. The members of the opposition arent even half as intelligent as ordinary Russian workers, he said. Here, a protester in Moscow on March 10.
Masked demonstrators carry flags reading "The Party of Love" at the anti-Putin rally in Moscow.
At that same rally, a protester wearing a "Robocop" costume walks among Russian riot police.
Some protesters clashed with police at the March 10 demonstration. Recent tough talk from Putin has kept some demonstrators at home, opposition leaders say.
"The fear is back," says journalist Sergei Parkhomenko. "Many are worried that Putin will react to the protests with a new wave of repression."
Opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov, leader of the Left Front movement, speaks to demonstrators at a rally in Moscow on March 5, 2012. Udaltsov was arrested on the day of the Russian parliamentary elections in December 2011 and detained for five days. Udaltsov was named a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.
A protester is detained at a "For Honest Elections" rally held in Moscow on March 5, 2012.
Demonstrators at a pro-communist rally protest the election results in Moscow on March 5, 2012.
Activists from the Ukrainian protest group FEMEN are held back by security personnel after reportedly trying to steal a ballot box with Putin's ballot at a Moscow polling station on March 4, 2012. They said stealing the ballot was meant as a form of protest against what they said was Putin's stealing of votes.
Members of the Russian feminist group and punk band "Pussy Riot," staged a performance against the policies of Vladimir Putin at the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow on Feb. 21, 2012.
