Moscow rally gathers 8000 protesters, 15,000 Putin supporters![]() February 4, 2012 - 13:45 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Police said some 8,000 gathered for the opposition rally at Moscow’s Kaluzhskaya Ploshchad as of 12 a.m. Saturday, February 4 though video feed from the site indicated the figure was considerably higher. About 15,000 were in attendance for the rally in support of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Poklonnaya Gora an hour before its scheduled start at 1 p.m., Moscow police said. No video feed from the site was available at the time. “People keep on arriving, the situation is changing constantly,” police said in a statement. Police estimates of attendance during two previous opposition rallies in December were considerably lower than those by organizers and independent observers. Azerbaijani authorities report that they have already resettled 3,000 people in the Nagorno-Karabakh town of Stepanakert. On June 10, Azerbaijani President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will leave for Turkey on a working visit. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Moscow on April 22 to hold talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. Partner news |