Putin derides 'leaderless' opposition movement

MOSCOW - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday belittled Russia's protest movement as lacking clear aims or leaders and rejected their demands for a review of the results of disputed parliamentary polls.

"They have no united program, clear ways of reaching their aims - which are themselves not clear - or people who could achieve something concrete," Putin said in comments broadcast by state television.

"I have difficulty imagining who from their ranks could do concrete work for the development of our state," Putin told a meeting of his All-Russian Popular Front that rallies support for him.