Russia protests over Austrian spying arrest
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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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Thousands of poor Russians demonstrated across Russia on Saturday as part of a campaign of protest against abolition of some benefits that has dented President Vladimir Putin's popularity.
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Russia are to lodge a forceful protest  with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over what they  say was biased judging throughout the Athens gymnastics  competition, the team spokesman said Tuesday.
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Russian police detained gay protesters calling for the right to hold a Gay Pride parade in central Moscow on Sunday while nationalists shouting "death to homosexuals" punched and kicked the demonstrators.
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Russia launches a spying case over statements made by the man accused by the UK of killing former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko.
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Supporters and critics of Russia&#39;s president are demonstrating in Moscow, with both groups calling attention to Kremlin plans to consolidate power.
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Several thousand people gathered for a sanctioned meeting in the Chechen capital Grozny to protest a possible pardon for former Russian Army officer Yuri Budanov, Russian news agencies report.
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Russian police detained gay protesters  calling for the right to hold a Gay Pride parade in central  Moscow on Sunday while nationalists shouting &quot;death to  homosexuals&quot; punched and kicked the demonstrators.
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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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The Russian-Georgian spying row, Germany's Afghan mission and a French Socialist leader's decision to bow out of the presidential race are key concerns in European papers on Friday.
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Vienna releases a Russian space agency official who was arrested last week on suspicion of spying.
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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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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday accused neighboring Georgia of behaving like Stalin's secret police, stoking a row over Georgia's arrest of four Russian officers last week for spying.
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Â· OSCE says restrictions prevent it doing its jobÂ· Russia accuses observers of double standards
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At least 2,000 Russian  protesters broke through police lines and blocked St  Petersburg's main thoroughfare on Saturday, in an unusually  bold show of opposition to the Kremlin.
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British officials chose unusually sharp language to protest Moscowâs refusal to extradite the man accused of murdering a former KGB agent.
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The EU calls on Russia to lift economic sanctions it imposed on Georgia amid a bitter spying row.