Sounds just like the U.S. Russian media does not report anti-Putin rallies. School children used as props during class time, taken out of class and put in pro-gov. rally without parental consent.
12/7/11, "Russia protests: Gorbachev calls for election re-run," BBC
"Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has said Sunday's Russian parliamentary election was marred by fraud and has called for a re-run.
"The country's leaders must admit there were numerous falsifications and rigging and the results do not reflect the people's will," he said.
Protesters have called for new rallies as arrests in Tuesday's crackdown in Moscow and elsewhere reached 800.
Key figures in the protest movement are starting 15-day jail sentences.
State TV channels have ignored the protests, giving coverage only to rallies in support of the government.
The centre of Moscow saw its biggest protest against the rule of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his allies in years on Monday, when several thousand people came out to condemn widely reported fraud at Sunday's parliamentary elections.
An attempt to hold a smaller rally on Tuesday was quickly broken up by riot police, while rival rallies by
- Putin supporters were allowed to proceed....
Nikita Batalov, a journalist for Russian commercial radio station Kommersant FM, has been blogging on his Twitter account about a pro-government rally on Wednesday on Moscow's Pushkin Square.
Quoting a mother, he said schoolchildren had been taken out of class and brought in for the event
- without parental consent."...
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