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• August 23, 2010
  MAKHACHKALA, Russia – The partly decapitated bodies of two Russian border guards and a forest worker have been found in the country's volatile south, officials said Monday. The border guards were serving in Dagestan, a republic in the North Caucasus where law enforcement officers and other officials come under daily attack from militants. Authorities we […]
• August 22, 2010
  MOSCOW (AFP) – Some 2,000 people Sunday crammed into a Moscow square amid a heavy police presence for a banned rock concert to protest plans to build a motorway through a forest outside the Russian capital. The numbers were far higher than for past opposition rallies in Moscow but the concert failed to get off the ground after police refused to allow amplifi […]
• August 22, 2010
  MOSCOW (Reuters) – Police detained opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, a vocal critic of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and about 20 other people on Sunday when they tried to march down a main Moscow avenue without permission. Hours later, a potentially explosive demonstration and concert attended by Kremlin critics went off without a feared crackdown, with […]
• August 22, 2010
  MOSCOW – Police prevented about 100 opposition activists from marching through Moscow on Sunday with a giant Russian flag and detained three of their leaders, including prominent politician Boris Nemtsov. The opposition activists were celebrating Flag Day, a holiday honoring the tricolor flag adopted by a newly democratic Russia when the Soviet Union collaps […]
• August 22, 2010
  MOSCOW (AFP) – Russian activists pressed ahead with plans to stage a banned rock concert on Sunday to rally opposition to routing a highway through a forest, despite worries that police would disperse the gathering. Authorities earlier in the day detained one of the concert's main organisers as several unknown assailants attacked vehicles carrying music […]

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