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Members of Bolshevik Party Briefly Seize Moscow Presidential Building
AP Wire
MOSCOW (AP) - Members of a radical, right-wing political party briefly seized a Kremlin-controlled building Tuesday in downtown Moscow to demonstrate against President Vladimir Putin, a security official said.
About 40 members of the National Bolshevik Party entered the presidential information administration building around noon and blockaded themselves in a room. Party members could be seen through windows holding up the party's red-and-white, hammer-and-sickle flags along with a black banner reading: "Putin, quit your job."
The Kremlin security press service said the participants were later detained and questioned by police.
Alexander Averin, a spokesman for the party, told the Interfax news agency that the blockade was designed to protest recent decisions by Putin to overhaul regional legislative elections and to streamline the country's system of giving benefits to veterans, the elderly and the disabled.
"This is a political action protesting the rigging of recent elections, the passage of a law replacing benefits with cash payments and other political steps taken by the government," Averin was quoted as saying by Interfax.
AP Wire
MOSCOW (AP) - Members of a radical, right-wing political party briefly seized a Kremlin-controlled building Tuesday in downtown Moscow to demonstrate against President Vladimir Putin, a security official said.
About 40 members of the National Bolshevik Party entered the presidential information administration building around noon and blockaded themselves in a room. Party members could be seen through windows holding up the party's red-and-white, hammer-and-sickle flags along with a black banner reading: "Putin, quit your job."
The Kremlin security press service said the participants were later detained and questioned by police.
Alexander Averin, a spokesman for the party, told the Interfax news agency that the blockade was designed to protest recent decisions by Putin to overhaul regional legislative elections and to streamline the country's system of giving benefits to veterans, the elderly and the disabled.
"This is a political action protesting the rigging of recent elections, the passage of a law replacing benefits with cash payments and other political steps taken by the government," Averin was quoted as saying by Interfax.