From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/2/2006 4:33 AM
Russians march against poverty
Web posted at: 5/2/2006 2:34:31
Source ::: AFP
Russian members of the Red Youth Avant-garde (AKM) leftist organisation shout as they march in central Moscow. Tens of thousands of people marched through central Moscow to celebrate May Day.
MOSCOW: More than a million people took part in May Day demonstrations against poverty across Russia yesterday, police estimated according to the ITAR-TASS news agency, called out by pro-government unions and communists nostalgic for the old days of the Soviet Union.
In Moscow, where there was a major security presence, organisers put the number parading in bright sunshine at 60,000.
About 25,000 trade-unionists and backers of the pro-government United Russia party marched peacefully through central Moscow calling for a “social state,” holding balloons and flowers, a police spokesman, Viktor Biryukov, was quoted by ITAR-TASS as saying.
A minimum monthly salary of 1,100 rubles ($40)“is a disgrace. We ...
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