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  • A protester with the words "no vote" covering her lips is one of more than 10,000 people at a St. Petersburg, Russia, rally Saturday after parliamentary elections that the throng claims were rigged to favor Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's Russia United party. (Associated Press)

    Large Russian protests get a response

    Russia's president on Sunday ordered an investigation of electoral fraud in last week's parliamentary elections after thousands of protesters rallied against the election results in the most massive demonstrations in the country's post-Soviet history.


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