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Protesters and police clash in Moscow
Summary from United States, from articles in English
[UPDATED] (see summary with new information since yesterday)
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MOSCOW Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov and several hundred other anti-Kremlin activists were detained yesterday after hundreds of riot police sealed off Moscow's Pushkin Square and clubbed some protesters to prevent a banned opposition rally and march. (article 4)
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia Riot police beat and detained dozens of anti-Kremlin demonstrators Sunday on a second day of protests that tested the weak opposition's ability to challenge widely President Vladimir Putin. (article 3)
Putin's foes said the harsh handling of demonstrators, who included many elderly people, would fuel a growing sense that the leader is strangling democracy ahead of parliamentary elections in December and a presidential vote next spring. (article 3)
His government controls the main television news, allowing his critics few appearances on the prime source of information in the sprawling country. (article 3)
MOSCOW - Riot police beat and detained protesters as thousands defied an official ban and attempted to stage a rally Saturday against Putin's government , which opponents accuse of rolling back freedoms Russians have enjoyed since the end of Soviet communism. (article 1)
A coalition of opposition groups organized the "Dissenters March" to protest the economic and social policies of Putin as well as a series of Kremlin actions that critics say has stripped Russians of many political rights. (article 2)
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Kasparov, police, Putin, demonstrators, Moscow |
Source articles
- Thousands flout protest ban in Moscow (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 04/15/2007, 277 words)
- Kasparov Freed After Anti-Putin Rally (time.com, 04/14/2007, 927 words)
- Russia Police Detain Dozens for 2nd Day (baltimoresun.com, 04/15/2007, 816 words)
- Protesters and police clash in Moscow (boston.com, 04/15/2007, 569 words)
- Dozens Arrested as Riot Police Beat Anti-Kremlin Protesters in St. Petersburg (Washington Post, 04/16/2007, 11 words)
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