HELSINKI， Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Some 500 people gathered in central Helsinki to call for respect for women and continued attention to the environment on Saturday， one day after Donald Trump took the presidency of the United States.

The rally was held as a sister event of the Washington Women's March， a massive demonstration that gathered hundreds of thousands people mainly in Washington D.C. in reaction to Trump's campaign rhetoric.

Organizers in Washington said earlier that they saw the demonstration as not being solely anti-Trump but in support of a range of issues affecting women， including abortion rights， health， equal pay and gun violence.

The protest in Finland took place in the Civic Square opposite the Parliament building， the most prestigious site for demonstrations in Helsinki. The focus was the alleged impact of the Trump presidency on equality， minorities and also on environmental issues.

Protesters wrote their "reasons to march" on a number of black boards， and their slogans varied from "kindness" and "compassion" to "gender equality" and "no more silence."

A little girl held a placard reading "Make America kind again." The girl's mother Tracy Dolan， one of the organizers， told Xinhua that in her view the United States is "not only about being powerful， but it is about being kind too."

"There is much hatred now， and that is not the way of interacting with people，" she said. Dolan said she did not want to see populism spread as more elections were coming in France and elsewhere.

The initiator of the Helsinki event was journalist Lissu Moulton， an American who has been living in Finland since 1991 and become known in Finland as a broadcaster and columnist. She had written in social media during the week: "When there's nothing you can do， you can't just do nothing."

Major political parties had been asked to attend， but the speakers mainly represented the greens， the left and liberal right. "We sent invitations late， and they may not have reached all， one of the organizers， artist Heli Kuchka told Xinhua.

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In his first public remarks about an unsubstantiated dossier outlining unverified claims that Trump engaged in sexual activities with prostitutes at a Moscow hotel, Putin dismissed the material as "nonsense."

"People who order such fakes against the U.S. president-elect, fabricate them and use them in political struggle are worse than prostitutes," Putin said. "They have no moral restrictions whatsoever, and it highlights a significant degree of degradation of political elites in the West, including in the United States."

Separately, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the dossier, compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, was a "rude provocation." The diplomat contemptuously called its author a "runaway swindler from MI6," Britain's foreign intelligence agency. Trump has rejected the sexual allegations as "fake news" and "phony stuff."

The statements by Putin and Lavrov reflected the Kremlin's deep anger at President Barack Obama's administration in a culmination of tensions that have built up over the crisis in Ukraine, the war in Syria and allegations of Russian meddling in the U.S. election.

Putin said the allegations were part of efforts by the Obama administration to "undermine the legitimacy of the president-elect" despite his "convincing" victory.

Asked about Putin's remarks, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said it "was not the first time the intelligence community has had some uncomfortable things to say about Russia."

"These are the kind of things I'm sure the Russians would rather not to hear, but ultimately, and this is something that the next administration is going to have to decide, there's a pretty stark divide here," he added.

Putin voiced hope that "common sense will prevail" and Russia and the United States will be able to normalize relations once Trump takes office Friday.

"I don't know Mr. Trump," Putin said. "I have never met him and I don't know what he will do on the international arena. I have no reason whatsoever to assail him, criticize him for something, or defend him."

Putin ridiculed those behind the dossier for alleging Russian spy agencies collected compromising material on Trump when he visited Moscow in 2013 for the Miss Universe pageant.

"He wasn't a politician. We didn't even know about his political ambitions," Putin said at a news conference. "Do they think that our special services are hunting for every U.S. billionaire?"

Putin also sarcastically suggested that Trump, who met the world's most beautiful women at the pageant, had a better choice for female companionship than Moscow prostitutes, even though Putin claimed "they are also the best in the world."

He said Trump's foes are ready to go as far as to "stage a Maidan in Washington to prevent Trump from entering office" — a reference to the alleged U.S. role in organizing protests in the Ukrainian capital's main square, Maidan, that forced the nation's Russia-friendly president from power in 2014.

"People who are doing that are inflicting colossal damage to the interests of the United States," Putin said. "How can you do anything to improve U.S.-Russian relations when they launch such canards as hackers' interference in the election?"

At a separate news conference, Lavrov also said Moscow hopes for better relations with Washington once Trump takes office.

Russia and the United States can reach common ground on nuclear arms control and other issues if each country proceeds from its national interests a

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