Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's attempt to placate the masses who rallied against a disputed poll backfired on his own Facebook page on Monday when it became flooded with irate comments.More than 10,000 people posted replies, many of them insulting, after Medvedev wrote on Facebook that while he disagreed with protesters' slogans, he was still ready to run a check on whether the vote was marred by fraud.
"Dmitry Anatolyevich, I voted for you in the last elections. Give me back my vote, I've changed my mind," wrote Vitaly Maiorov.
"Coward, coward and once again coward!" wrote Sergei Slaikovsky.
Many pointed out sarcastically that the rally slogans Medvedev said he rejected included "For fair elections."
"The Russian president doesn't agree that elections should be fair? That's sad," wrote Mikhail Noskov.