31 in Russia held after gay rights demonstration
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MOSCOW -- Police detained gay rights activists, among them European lawmakers, as they tried to present a letter to Moscow's mayor yesterday in a demonstration that also attracted a hostile crowd of people who punched and threw eggs at the activists.
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Gay rights activists were pummeled by right-wing protesters and detained by police Saturday, preventing them from putting on a display of gay pride in defiance of a city ban.
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A journalist with Russia s state-owned Channel One television, Pavel Sheremet, was detained by police in the Belarus capital Minsk on Sunday evening, Russia s news agency Interfax reports.
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Police on Wednesday freed seven young people who were detained the day before during protests against a much-criticized referendum that cleared the way for Belarus' authoritarian president to stay in power indefinitely, Russian media reported.
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Police in Moscow have detained two Chechen men on suspicion of involvement in the killing of American journalist Paul Klebnikov in the Russian capital, the city police chief said Tuesday.
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Russia said on Thursday it had  protested to Austria over the arrest of a Russian space agency  official on suspicion of espionage.
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Israeli police detained an Orthodox Jewish man carrying a small homemade bomb in Jerusalem on Thursday, as thousands of Israelis marched in support of gay rights in defiance of religious protesters.
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MOSCOW -- Militants holding hundreds of hostages in a school in southern Russia freed 26 women and children yesterday as the Russian government intensified negotiations with the captors and relatives of those still inside kept an emotional vigil nearby.
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A protest in Moscow led by chess champion Garry Kasparov and other critics of President Vladimir Putin ended peacefully Monday in marked contrast to their last demonstration in the capital which culminated in beatings and arrests.
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Armed attackers have seized a school in town in southern Russia, and Russia&#39;s ITAR-TASS news agency says about 400 people, including 200 children, are being held.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 16 -- Russian authorities pulled hundreds of opposition activists off buses and trains and detained them along with scores of others on Saturday ahead of a rare anti-government rally in Moscow, organizers said.
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About 200 people have been arrested during a day of protest against President George W Bush in the city of New York. Police say most of the arrests were for disorderly conduct and occurred away from the march.
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MOSCOW  - Tens of thousands of people answered a government call and rallied outside the Kremlin on Tuesday in a show of solidarity against terrorism, nearly a week after militants seized a school in southern Russia in a standoff that claimed more than 350 lives, many of them children.
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Law enforcement officers searched an opposition group's office in Moscow, an activist said.
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MOSCOW -- Russian gay activists vowed to demonstrate in Moscow despite a ban by city authorities, a year after a similar attempt led to arrests by police and attacks by right-wing nationalists.
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Russia started evacuating personnel from its embassy in the Georgian capital as Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili angrily denied that they were in any danger, during a row over the arrest of alleged Russian spies.
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MOSCOW -- Tens of thousands of people answered a government call and rallied outside the Kremlin yesterday in a show of solidarity against terrorism, nearly a week after militants seized a school in southern Russia in a standoff that claimed more than 350 lives, many of them children.