For a start, it highlighted the unlikely success of a decade-long effort to develop a disused 22-block railway along the West Side into a park.
Images broadcast on Indian TV showed protesters blocking railway tracks and roads in Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha.
On Friday, the campaigners were convicted in a court in suburban Seattle of misdemeanor trespassing relating to a September 2014 protest in which they blocked railway tracks used by crude oil trains in Everett, Washington.
There are reports that opposition supporters have blocked railway lines leading both to the north and south out of Cairo.
Protesters blocked railways.
Throughout the region, downed trees blocked railways.
About 1,000 protesters tried to block the railway and the main highway, and began throwing stones and firing shots at the police.
Mr Tuleyev says he will "simply not allow" any further protests to block the railway.In fact, Mr Vorobiev makes a rather sober impression.
Panicked, Spetznaz tried to block the railway, their efforts part-hampered, part-helped by groups of sweaty local men in tracksuits, bearing hunting rifles and eager to get involved in the fight.
In Asyut, protesters blocked a railway line.
When the children notice a landslide blocking the railway track, they know instantly they must do something.
