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>Credible, independent source?
Twitter detected merely 20 thousand mobile phones there on that day. People without mobile phones aren't numerous nowadays, so it was no more than 25 thousand peoples there.
>A re-run of the elections isn't an exact demand?
Not a demand, since all parties except the communists are satisfied with the results. And the communists are dealing with it legally, through the court. Organisators of the meeting however shouted random bullshit which most of the people did not agree (after all, the only thing they were united by was the hatred towards the government) like "free Hodorkovsky".
>As long as you ignore the vote rigging
You do realize how easy is to make a provokation - hire a bunch of chavs, tell them to throw a bunch of voting papers, then record it on camera and blame the government for that. Or do you claim, that the opposition cannot lie, too?
>Much more civilized and orderly.
Well, no one is throwing gas at crowd as police did in USA. And no one is causing havoc, like it recently happened in London or Greece.
Neat and orderly.