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Dmitry Medvedev Facebook message against Russian protesters backfires

The Daily Telegraph

Dmitry Medvedev has been humiliated online after his Facebook page, in which he posted a message denouncing Saturday’s 50,000-strong rally in Moscow, was flooded by protesters criticising the Russian president.

The post, which came on the same day that the controversial head of the elections commission avoided an attempt to remove him, sparked disbelief and disgust and within two hours more than 3,500 people had posted comments, the vast majority overwhelmingly negative.

Mr Medvedev used the Facebook message to announce he had ordered an investigation into violations at the Russian parliamentary elections.