Source: Beta
MOSCOW -- Russian police broke up opposition demonstrations in front of the State Duma as PM Vladimir Putin was submitting his report on the work of the government.
(Beta/AP)
However, police arrested leader of the Left Front Sergei Udaltsov and five others, organizers said.
All access to the Duma building was blocked in the early morning, with security letting through only parliament members, officials and accredited journalists.
Putin today told the Duma that he ready to cooperate with the opposition and called for an end to political conflict.
The prime minister is due to take over as the country's president in early May.