Wednesday, May 22nd 01:24 PM IST
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Russian socialite and TV host Kseniya Sobchak, daughter of the late St. Petersburg mayor, Anatoly Sobchak, center, smiles while listening to the State Duma (Parliament) lawmaker Nikolay Gonchar from United Russia Party, unseen, as youth opposition protesters gather near the monument of Kazakh poet Abai Kunanbaev in the opposition camp at the Chistiye Prudy, or Clean Ponds, where they vowed to continue the roving protest in Moscow, Russia, Monday, May 14, 2012. Socialite and opposition figure Kseniya Sobchak has accused a woman of falsely claiming to be a fed-up resident of the Chistiye Prudy neighborhood where protesters have spent several days in an interview with state-owned television station Channel One. A hundred people have occupied a plaza on a leafy boulevard in central Moscow for six days, handing out leaflets, collecting signatures for petitions, reading up for exams and sleeping on yoga mats at night. The movement which came to be known as Occupy Abay in reference to the nearby monument of a great Kazakh poet proves that public discontent with Vladimir Putin's third term in office is not waning, but people are getting increasingly frustrated with authorities who remain deaf to their grievances.

Russian socialite and TV host Kseniya Sobchak, daughter of the late St. Petersburg mayor, Anatoly Sobchak, center, smiles while listening to the State Duma (Parliament) lawmaker Nikolay Gonchar from United Russia Party, unseen, as youth opposition protesters gather near the monument of Kazakh poet Abai Kunanbaev in the opposition camp at the Chistiye Prudy, or Clean Ponds, where they vowed to continue the roving protest in Moscow, Russia, Monday, May 14, 2012. Socialite and opposition figure Kseniya Sobchak has accused a woman of falsely claiming to be a fed-up resident of the Chistiye Prudy neighborhood where protesters have spent several days in an interview with state-owned television station Channel One. A hundred people have occupied a plaza on a leafy boulevard in central Moscow for six days, handing out leaflets, collecting signatures for petitions, reading up for exams and sleeping on yoga mats at night. The movement which came to be known as Occupy Abay in reference to the nearby monument of a great Kazakh poet proves that public discontent with Vladimir Putin's third term in office is not waning, but people are getting increasingly frustrated with authorities who remain deaf to their grievances.