Ex-mayor to form new political movement

MOSCOW - The former mayor of Moscow who was fired by Russia's president said in an interview published on Monday that he plans to form his own political movement.

Yuri Luzhkov, who was dismissed by President Dmitry Medvedev last week after 18 years in office, told the weekly New Times that his movement would seek to develop democracy in Russia.

"Our society today is governed by undemocratic laws," he said in his first interview since his dismissal. "And our society has degenerated, degenerated quite seriously in all spheres."