40 Protesters Seize a Kremlin Office (call for Putin's resignation)

40 Protesters Seize a Kremlin Office

The Moscow Times

AP


About 40 members of the radical National Bolshevik Party seized a presidential administration office just off Red Square on Tuesday and demanded that President Vladimir Putin resign, a police spokeswoman said.

Federal Guard Service officers and riot police broke down the door of the office on the first floor of the building at 21 Ulitsa Ilyinka and detained 39 people, said the spokeswoman, Yelena Persilova.

The protesters managed to hold the room -- a presidential administration directory information service -- for 35 minutes, the Interfax and Regnum news agencies reported.

"This is a political action protesting the rigging of recent elections, the passage of a law replacing benefits with cash payments and other political steps taken by the government," said National Bolshevik Party spokesman Alexander Averin, Interfax reported...cont'd

http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2004/12/15/012.html

but didn't this happen before? Only instead of a president's resignation they executed a Czar?

further on Russian civil liberties?