Die-hard Kremlin opponents take protest to streets
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - Shut out of elections and barred from television screens, Russia's tiny band of die-hard Kremlin opponents now believe street protests are the only way to make their voice heard.
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As political battles heat up, the Kremlin is accused of crippling the websites of opposition parties, as well as media outlets.
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Tens of thousands of Ukrainians have taken to the streets to protest a presidential election they say was stolen by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovitch.
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About 150 protesters faced off with police Saturday as they tried to exercise their right of assembly despite the Kremlin&#039;s determination to keep a lid on demonstrations during the Group of Eight summit.
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Ukraine faced more mass street protests Tuesday from an opposition complaining it was cheated of the presidency by the Moscow-backed government, and the political split threatened to turn violent.
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Tens of thousands of Ukrainian opposition  supporters marched on the president's office on Tuesday seeking  to install their leader in office, defying poll results they  said had been rigged by a pro-Moscow government.
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Police clubbed protesters and dragged them into waiting buses on Saturday in response to a defiant demonstration against the Kremlin in the heart of President Vladimir Putin's hometown.
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Tens of thousands of supporters of opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko protested in the Ukrainian capital Saturday to demand that this ex-Soviet republic hold a free and fair presidential election next Sunday.
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An unusually large and unruly public protest against the government of President Vladimir V. Putin ended with more than 100 arrests.
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A thousand retired people tried to block the road to a Moscow airport Saturday as 10,000 others jammed the avenues in President Vladimir Putin's hometown of St. Petersburg to voice their anger over a law that stripped them of some key welfare benefits. It was the largest show of discontent since the Kremlin leader took power nearly five years ago.
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Tens of thousands of Ukrainians jammed into their capital&#39;s main plaza yesterday to protest the apparent victory of the country&#39;s Russia-backed prime minister in this weekend&#39;s
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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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The opposition calls its supporters into the street and the government comes down hard  -  but there are also signs the anger may be waning
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Police stopped angry retirees from blocking traffic Monday, the third day of protests in President Vladimir Putin's hometown against welfare benefit cutoffs that have sparked the largest outburst of public anger in the Russian leader's five years in power.
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Dozens of leftist activists were   arrested near Moscow's Kremlin on Monday after they forced   their way into the finance ministry to protest against   government policies, witnesses said.
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Tens of thousands of anti-government protestors have been demonstrating on the streets of the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, ahead of next weekend's presidential election.
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Hundreds of thousands of rival demonstrators massed in 70 Russian towns on Saturday to condemn or applaud social benefit reforms by President Vladimir Putin's government, Russian media reported.