Thousands rally in Moscow for and against Putin electoral reforms
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MOSCOW  - Thousands rallied at a government-sponsored demonstration Thursday to hail sweeping electoral changes proposed by President Vladimir Putin to fight terrorism. A much smaller group gathered near parliament to complain the proposals would strip Russians of basic legal rights.
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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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MOSCOW -- Russian voters went to the polls yesterday in regional elections dominated by two pro-Kremlin parties, a result that critics said presented the appearance of democracy without its substance.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin defended unpopular social benefit reforms Monday but criticized his government for failing to successfully implement changes that have brought thousands onto the streets in protest.
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ABOUT 5000 supporters of Ukraine's defeated presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovich have rallied in his eastern stronghold as the supreme court hears his final appeal over a rerun election.
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Russian regional elections seen as a dress rehearsal for next year's presidential vote handed the Kremlin's supporters a hefty majority and squeezed out its most outspoken opponents, results showed on Monday.
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Over 100,000 people are expected to attend an anti-terrorism rally in Moscow following the Beslan school massacre. The rally, being held outside the Kremlin, is taking place on the second day of official morning
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MOSCOW - Tens of thousands of demonstrators waving banners and flags gathered in Red Square in a show of unity against terrorism as the country mourned the hundreds of victims of a hostage-taking at a school in southern Russia.    More than 100,000 people were expected to take part in the evening rally in the capital, organized by a pro-government trade union and advertised on state-controlled television by celebrities who appealed to citizens to turn out to say no to terror...
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MOSCOW - Waving flags and banners, tens of thousands of Russians demonstrated against terrorism Tuesday, massing outside the Kremlin in response to government calls for solidarity after a series of deadly attacks that have killed more than 400 people.    The growing crowd stood still for a moment of silence in memory of victims, starting the rally after a clock atop the Kremlin's Spassky Tower struck 5 p.m...
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MOSCOW - Amid rising ethnic tensions in the North Caucasus, thousands on Tuesday took to the streets of Grozny, the Chechen capital, to protest the proposed pardon of a Russian army colonel who murdered a young Chechen woman.
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MOSCOW -- About 1,000 people gathered in front of the US and British embassies in Moscow Friday, accusing the countries of having a double standard in the war on terror.
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MOSCOW -- Tens of thousands of demonstrators -- many waving banners and flags -- gathered in Moscow&#39;s Red Square Tuesday in a show of unity against terrorism after last week&#39;s hostage-taking at a school in Beslan in southern Russia.
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Moscow - More than 100 000 people were expected in central Moscow on Tuesday at a rally to condemn terrorism amid mounting rage across the country over the bloody hostage drama in southern Russia and the government&#39;s handling of it.
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Russian state television predicted at least 100,000 people would attend a Moscow rally on Tuesday to denounce terrorism, bolstering President Vladimir Putin against critics over a Chechnya-linked hostage bloodbath.
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Tens of thousands gather in Moscow and other Russian cities as the nation mourns victims of the school siege.
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MOSCOW  - Hundreds of Kremlin critics gathered Sunday on Constitution Day to denounce what they call a retreat from democracy as President Vladimir Putin signed a bill scrapping gubernatorial elections.