RUSSIA: 25 Dec UPDATE: Analysis After 120,000 In Moscow Peacefully Protest Putin and Rigged Elections.

                                        AP/ With 20 Fotos

    Despite freezing temps...80,000-120,000 people peacefully protested alleged recent rigged elections and the 'managed democracy' of PM Vladimir Putin...for 4 hours...in Moscow's Sakharov Prospect.

    It was the biggest protest since the fall of the Soviet Union.
    One speaker said: "We are the 99%. The 1% are Kremlin bandits, criminal oligarchs, corrupted officials and other bastards. The 1% are Kremlin bandits, criminal oligarchs, corrupted officials and other bastards.The leadership – these tandem dwarves – is deathly dangerous for Russia."


AND: New analysis from REUTERS: Putin seems even more out of touch, arrogant and autocratic...with declining popularity. Putin's use of the term 'chattering monkeys' annoys many Internet users.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/25/us-russia-putin-idUSTRE7BO03K20111225