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AFP Photo / Rogerio Barbosa 27.05.2012 13:59 5 comments

Protest or block party? 10,000 Canadians take to the streets (PHOTOS)

Demonstrating in Canada does not necessarily mean clashing with riot police. Some 10,000 protesters on the streets of Montreal proved it by turning a Saturday march into a free-spirited festival resembling the world-famous Love Parade.

 
Afghanistan security forces and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) officials walk through debris  (AFP Photo/Massoud Hossaini) 27.05.2012 13:53 8 comments

NATO strike kills Afghan family – local officials

A coalition air strike has killed at least seven members of an Afghan family in eastern Afghanistan, local officials report. NATO has acknowledged the allegations and is conducting an investigation into the incident.

Syrian women (unseen) shower army troops with rose petals and rice as youths holding up a national flag in front of a portrait of President Bashar al-Assad ride on an army tank pulling out of the southern protest hub of Daraa on May 5, 2011. (AFP Photo/Louai Beshara) 27.05.2012 13:14 5 comments

Peaceful solution is the only way forward – Syrian deputy FM

Damascus is being provoked by armed groups which need chaos in the country, Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abdulfattah Amura told RT. Amura says the authorities have only acted in self defense.

Syria unrest
 
Egyptian election officials count ballots at a polling station in Cairo on May 24, 2012 after polls closed in the country's landmark presidential election. (AFP Photo / Khaled Desouki) 27.05.2012 12:44 4 comments

Egypt election outlook bleak: Fraud allegations mar polls

Preliminary results of Egypt’s presidential race have left the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate and an ex-military PM set to duke it out in an upcoming run-off vote. But the losing candidates are crying foul amid claims of mass election violations.

Egypt unrest
Scotland's First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Alex Salmond (3rd L), stands on the stage with supporters during the launch of the "Yes Scotland" campaign for an independent Scotland, in Edinburgh, Scotland May 25, 2012. (Reuters / David Moir) 26.05.2012 15:18 39 comments

A million-strong task: Scots push for UK breakup

Supporters of Scottish independence have launched their bid for a declaration that could see the nation break free from a 305-year-old union with the United Kingdom.

 
Students stage a protest against tuition fee increases on May 25, 2012 in Montreal. (AFP Photo / Rogerio Barbosa) 26.05.2012 13:15 20 comments

Canada protest spreads as arrest list hits 2,500 benchmark

Ontario students have pledged to take to the streets in solidarity with their protesting fellows in Montreal and other cities of Quebec. The students are defying emergency laws the authorities are imposing to curb down the wave of dissent.

A protester is pepper sprayed during a protest against student tuition hikes on the 100th day of Quebec's student strikes, in downtown Montreal May 22, 2012 (Reuters/Brett Gundlock) 26.05.2012 07:59 7 comments

‘Quebec protests no longer simply a student issue’ – journalist

The streets of Montreal have been the scene of massive protests against planned tuition hikes, as well as a law that seeks to limit the right to demonstrate. RT discussed the issue with Corey Pool, an editor of Montreal-based newspaper “The Link.”

 
A U.S. war veteran pulls his medals off his uniform before throwing them towards the site of the NATO Summit in Chicago on May 20, 2012 (Reuters/Adrees Latif) 26.05.2012 02:30 14 comments

War Medals of Dishonor thrown out

RT speaks to US veterans who feel betrayed by the system that pushed them into fighting America’s false-pretense wars, as the former soldiers throw out their medals which they deem symbols of lies.

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning leaves the courthouse after his motion hearing at Fort Meade in Maryland (REUTERS/Jose Luis Magaua) 25.05.2012 15:15 6 comments

Manning backers oppose ‘outrageous secrecy’ of trial

Supporters of WikiLeaks informer Bradley Manning say he is being tried amid far more secrecy than any terrorist in Guantanamo. They want prosecution motions, transcripts of proceeding and other material to be released to the public.

 
Kiev : Deputies of the Ukrainian opposition fight with deputies of the pro-presidential majority during a session of parliament in Kiev, as opposition parties protest a bill proposed by the ruling party which would make Russian an official state language along with Ukrainian. (AFP Photo/Stringer) 25.05.2012 14:18 31 comments

Ukrainian democracy crashes in fistfight

The head of the Ukrainian parliament has admitted that the legislative power system in the country has failed after several MPs started a fistfight over the status of the Russian language.

Montreal police watch protesters on May 23, 2012 during a demonstration against student tuition hikes (AFP Photo / Andre Tremblay) 24.05.2012 18:39 31 comments

Mass arrests: Over 700 Canadian protesters detained in police crackdown (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

Over 700 students have been arrested in Canada during the latest night of rallies against tuition fee hikes and the adoption of controversial bill that is widely seen as a tool to limit freedom of speech, association and assembly.

 
Activist of Ukrainian women's movement FEMEN try to grab a Euro 2012 football championship trophy on May 24, 2012 (AFP Photo / Yuriy Dyachyshyn) 24.05.2012 18:27 6 comments

English fans to face topless threat at Euro 2012

The tireless topless activists from Ukraine’s FEMEN women’s rights group have chosen English fans as their primary target at Euro 2012.

RIA Novosti / Grigory Sysoev 24.05.2012 18:07 1 comment

Human Rights Council speaks up for Hyde Park in Moscow

A spot similar to Speakers’ Corner in London’s Hyde Park, where protest rallies could be held without permission from the authorities should be created in Moscow, believes head of the presidential Human Rights Council Mikhail Fedotov.

 
Aleksey Navalny (Photo from www.ridus.ru) 24.05.2012 15:11 11 comments

Opposition set to continue fight

The Russian opposition is preparing for new mass protests in June and early September, says popular blogger Aleksey Navalny.

RIA Novosti/Ramil Sitdikov 24.05.2012 14:22 12 comments

Influential think-tank paints Russia’s future black

Russia is in the middle of an irreversible political crisis, and a peaceful positive solution is unlikely, reads a fresh report published by the Center of Strategic Research NGO.

 
Bristol hotel in Warsaw, where the Russian national football team will be based during the Euro 2012 football championship (AFP Photo / Janek Skarzynski) 24.05.2012 13:06 1 comment

Football beyond politics: Russia stick to Euro 2012 HQ

Despite an alleged threat of anti-Russian rallies, the national football squad have no intention of changing their Euro 2012 headquarters in the Polish capital.

Hundreds of people demonstrate in the impoverished Hatikva neighborhood of the southern Mediterranean city of Tel Aviv on May 23, 2012 (AFP Photo / Roni Schutzer)Israel Out) 24.05.2012 06:41 80 comments

Israeli Kristallnacht: Africans attacked in Tel Aviv anti-migrant demo (PHOTOS)

Thousands of Israelis, including high-profile politicians, attended an anti-African demonstration in Tel Aviv. The rally turned violent, with attacks on Africans and grocery shop windows being smashed.

 
Retired Philadelphia Police Department Captain Ray Lewis (L) stands outside Zuccotti Park after police removed the Occupy Wall Street protesters from the park early in the morning on November 15, 2011 in New York City (Mario Tama / Getty Images / AFP) 24.05.2012 02:07 5 comments

Police captain to be punished over OWS support?

Retired Captain Ray Lewis served within the ranks of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Police Department for nearly a quarter of a century. Now he is at odds against the force’s higher ups, however, over his role with Occupy Wall Street.

Occupy Wall Street
Protesters' camp in Moscow (RIA Novosti / Vladimir Astapkovich) 23.05.2012 21:48

Moscow chooses sites for protests' 'speaker's corner'

City Hall has drawn up a shortlist of four places in Central Moscow that could host protests in future.

 
RIA Novosti/Yana Lapikova 23.05.2012 18:15 26 comments

Society has right to protect itself from radicalism – Putin

Legislation on punishment for violations of street protest rules should be balanced and aimed at strengthening democracy in Russia, believes President Vladimir Putin.