c.s.u. will have their own party conference that's not till mid november many people say nothing will happen till after that and that means it could be january or later chief political correspondent melinda crane thank you very much. there were demonstrations across russia on saturday with thousands marching in support of jailed opposition leader alexei navalny they were calling on authorities to allow novell need to run in next year's presidential election police arrested more than two hundred people in authority say the demonstrations were not authorized well the protests coincided with president vladimir putin's sixty fifth birthday. they defied the ban on assembly to answer the call of their leader alexina volley. and under the eyes of the great poet pushkin they reclaimed more school students more transparency the right to freedom of expression and a crackdown on corruption were the main demands their message was clear from flags