I can say that there were a lot of real life action that originated on the Internet.

Novaya Gazeta has assembled a list of planned protest events.

Recently there have been a lot of protests in the city.

You find a lot of other distractions, but you don't find managers and meetings.

Lenta.ru, for instance, ran an article titled, Yavlinsky Declares Protests Meaningless.

President Donald Trump begins a flurry of campaign rallies tonight in Wheeling, West Virginia.

The events were preceded by a wave of anti Armenian statements and rallies that swept over Azerbaijan in February 1988.

But the primary aim of this flurry of rallies is helping Republicans facing touch November elections gain some momentum.

Demonstrators used social media widely during the protests, both to organize and share photos from rallies.

It's Trump's first of five scheduled rallies in the next week, including stops in friendly places including Tennessee and Mississippi.

Alexey Navalny Russia s most prominent blogger and oppositionist attended every one of these rallies between 2007 and 2011.

In Moscow those two elements managed to get together to hold one of the most massive peaceful manifestations in the history of the country.

After two mass rallies in Moscow against the parliamentary election results, Surkov lost his job in the Kremlin, following his obvious failure to contain the Internet.

More recently, protesters chanted it during the funeral demonstrations for Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri in the closing days of 2009.

NEW YORK In October, the Spanish parliament passed a Law on Historical Memory, which bans rallies and memorials celebrating the late dictator Francisco Franco.

NEW YORK 45 45 In October, the Spanish parliament passed a Law on Historical Memory, which bans rallies and memorials celebrating the late dictator Francisco Franco.

On November 25, 2012 Catalans headed to the polls for a snap regional election.

A Russian pro government political think tank has launched what they term a predictive and monitoring system to monitor unsanctioned rallies and protest actions on social networks.

Independent online video platform Newscaster TV, which often broadcasts from protest rallies in Russia, streamed the rally live on YouTube, and later made a recording of the event available online.

Ilya Klishin, creator of the Facebook groups that organized Russians to participate in Bolotnaya and Sakharov protest demonstrations, wrote that his mother had received a call from FSB (Federal Security Services) and his father was summoned to the local police department.

Clearly, women demonstrated tremendous enthusiasm for the political process, taking part in large numbers in political rallies, and as campaign workers in a range of election activities.

These are the questions people were asking as the day of another all Russian meeting December, 24 was approaching (the detailed map of meetings in Russian and foreign cities is here ).

Now what's interesting is, if you listen to all the places that people talk about doing work like at home, or in a car, or on a plane, or late at night, or early in the morning you don't find managers and meetings.

And indeed, from the photo documentation from the scenes I realised that I'm seeing photographs of people whom I know, even if I don't know them personally, they are all my friends, my group of friends from LJ and Facebook.

This post is part of our special coverage Russia Elections 2011. As the situation with the Russian election results and the country's detained protesters has not yet been resolved (see Global Voices coverage 1, 2, 3), people in many cities are preparing for demonstrations on Saturday 10 December, 2011.

Peaceful rallies have lasted for two months when the violent clashes with police broke out on the 19th of January, following the adoption of the set of repressive laws by the Parliament of Ukraine. Duirng the protests, Internet users have set up social media pages, blogs and news aggregation to gather and confirm information about what is happening on the ground during the many rallies organized throughout the country every day.

In one of her follow up articles, Petranovskaya talks about how the current chapter in Russian history is best described as a time of disillusionment for everyone from pro democracy protesters to conservative supporters of imperial conquest and glory.