Russian police detain gay activists
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Police detained gay rights activists, among them European lawmakers, as they tried to present a letter to Moscow's mayor Sunday, a demonstration that also attracted a hostile crowd of people who punched and threw eggs at the activists.
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Russian authorities investigate a police operation that led to hundreds of young men allegedly being arrested and beaten.
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Russian police surround a block of flats in the North Caucasus where a rebel leader is thought to be hiding.
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Moscow police arrested two Chechen men in connection with the murder of US journalist Paul Klebnikov, the Moscow Times reported Wednesday.
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Human rights and anti-globalization activists gathered in the Finnish capital after police detained more than 100 people at an anarchist protest.
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Police briefly detained Belarusian opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich on Monday for the third time in two weeks, accusing him of drug trafficking, his spokesman said.Comment
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The mayor of the Russian Far East's largest city was ordered arrested Wednesday amid a criminal investigation into suspect land deals and embezzlement in the latest bout of corruption to hit the long-troubled port.
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Russian gay activists vowed Saturday to demonstrate in Moscow despite a ban by the city authorities, a year after a similar attempt led to arrests by police and attacks by right-wing nationalists.
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Police in Moscow have arrested a suspected crime boss with alleged links to Russia's multibillion dollar gas business who has long been sought by the FBI and Interpol, officials said Friday.
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Jerusalem's Gay Pride march takes place amid tight security, as a man is arrested for plotting to bomb it.
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ST. PETERSBURG -- Police clubbed protesters and dragged them into waiting buses yesterday in response to a defiant demonstration against the Kremlin in the heart of President Vladimir Putin's hometown.
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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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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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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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RUSSIAN authorities have arrested 12 suspected members of the banned Hizbi Tahrir radical Islamic group, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said Saturday.
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As lawmakers here debated how to respond to terrorist attacks, Russian investigators on Wednesday arrested an airport police supervisor who briefly detained two women