In Russia, opposition activists took to the streets of Moscow and St. Petersburg on Monday to protest Sunday’s presidential election victory by Vladimir Putin’s handpicked successor, Dimitry Medvedev. The former world chess champion and opposition leader Garry Kasparov protested in St. Petersburg.

Garry Kasparov: “We don’t think that what happened yesterday was an election in the understanding of a normal democratic country. Today, we are staging a protest against this kind of transition of power. We are saying, 'Down with this monarchy, this dynasty.' We believe this is just the beginning of a long-lasting protest against a result which has come about not from the choice of the people, but the say-so of the clans in the Kremlin.”