What color ribbons should Russians wear if they support the protest? [br] [orig

Discontent is spreading in Russia, on the Internet as well as on the streets, as thousands object to what they see as the rigging of last Sunday’s parliamentary elections. (27) Several groups have emerged online, urging people to wear white ribbons to show their support for the protests. The ribbon appears to mimic the symbols of revolution adopted by former Soviet republics: orange in Ukraine, the rose in Georgia and the tulip in Kyrgyzstan. (28) White ribbons have begun appearing not only on blogs but on cars and in buttonholes. " Yesterday I went to the shops, bought 25cm of white ribbon and tied it to my car aerial," said Alena, a cab driver from Magadan in Russia’s Far East. " For me, the white ribbon is a visual sign of my protest," she said.