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On Saturday, August 10, tens of thousands of people took the streets of Moscow in the largest wave of demonstrations to hit the Russian capital since the so-called 2011 Snow Revolution.Police said that 20,000 people attended the latest in a weeks-long series of protests against the banning of opposition candidates from Moscow municipal elections set for September 8.The independent White Counter NGO, which monitors crowd sizes at demonstrations, put that figure at between 50,000-to-60,000.Russian-state television network Rossiya-24 dispatched correspondent Yaroslav Krasienko to cover the event.Focusing on attendees whom he described as gypsies
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