Russian protesters block main road in Putin hometown
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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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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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Thousands of supporters of opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko blockaded official buildings in the Ukrainian capital Friday in a direct challenge to the Moscow-backed government&#39;s control of the country.
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KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine  - More than a thousand anti-war protesters rallied near President George W. Bush's family compound on Sunday as he prepared to host Russian President Vladimir Putin for a fence-mending summit.
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Police officers and riot troops detained organizers as well as at least two European lawmakers outside Moscowâs city hall.
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Members of a radical, right-wing political party briefly seized a Kremlin-controlled building Tuesday in downtown Moscow to demonstrate against President Vladimir Putin, a security official said.
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KHIMKI, Russia, Jan. 15 - Mikhail I. Yermakov, a retired engineer, has never before taken to the streets to protest - not when the Soviet Union collapsed, the wars in Chechnya began, the ruble plummeted in 1998 or President Vladimir V. Putin last year ended his right to choose his governor.
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An increasingly bitter dispute between  Moscow and the West over democracy overshadowed the official  start on Saturday of the campaign for Russia's March 2  presidential election.
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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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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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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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Hundreds of thousands take to the streets across Russia in rallies for and against controversial welfare reform.
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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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ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia  - Hundreds of protesters ransacked and occupied the regional administration building in a southern Russian province Tuesday, demanding the resignation of the region's president, whose former son-in-law has been linked to a multiple slaying.
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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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Traffic in central Belgrade was in gridlock today as shareholders in Serbian beverage manufacturer Knjaz Milos protested in front of the Serbian Government building in the center of the city.
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Demonstrators waving Ukrainian National and orange flags gathered and blocked entrances of the Ukrainian government building, in the background, in Kiev, Friday, Nov.26, 2004.