Mass rallies are taking place in Moscow

Thousands of rival demonstrators are expected to take to the streets
this evening in post-election rallies, after Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin was elected president in an election the opposition claim was
flawed, RIA-Novosti reports.
Two mass rallies by Putin’s supporters are scheduled for today. The
first one, which is expected to bring together as many as 20,000
people, is taking place on Manezhnaya Square, the same venue that
hosted Sunday’s event where Putin arrived as the winner of the polls.
The second gathering, which will be held in the form of a concert, will
take place on Revolution Square.
Russia's presidential elections on Sunday brought Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin a landslide victory, winning him 63.71 percent of the
vote after 99.5 percent of ballots were counted.
Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov received 17.19 percent, while
billionaire-turned-politician Mikhail Prokhorov secured 7.88 percent
of the vote.
The opposition is also gathering at an authorized rally on
Pushkinskaya Square to protest against the results of the elections
that they say were allegedly fabricated in favor of Putin. Another
opposition demonstration is expected at Lubyanka Square.
Earlier, opposition activist Sergei Udaltsov, one of the main leaders
of the protest movement, said that he had been summoned to a police
station for “talks.” Udaltsov spent 15 days in prison earlier this
year for his role in organizing demonstrations which violated rules
set by the authorities.
“At around 10 p.m. (on Sunday) the police called me…and invited me
'for talks'…I was told they were planning to invite [Alexei] Navalny,
[Ilya] Yashin and [Boris] Nemtsov as well. I haven’t received any
official summons,” Udaltsov told the news website Gazeta.ru, adding
that he would probably not respond to the police summons.