Russia protests over Austrian spying arrest
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VIENNA/MOSCOW  - 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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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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Four Russian officers detained in Georgia are charged with spying, officials in Tbilisi say.
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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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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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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 Chechens have marched in the capital, Grozny, to protest against moves to pardon a Russian ex-colonel jailed for murdering a Chechen girl.
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Europe's top human rights watchdog slammed Russian authorities Wednesday over their arrest of leading Yukos oil executives, saying their detention was nothing but an attempt to silence opposition.
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The outcry over the police beating of  a leader of a budding movement to uphold motoristsâ rights has caused an unexpected burst of civic activism across Russia.
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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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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 authorities charge a man with spying for Britain - the latest step in an espionage row between the two countries.
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A broad spectrum of Russians protested Saturday in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities, expressing anger over a new law that replaces welfare benefits with cash payments. The demonstrators accused President Vladimir Putin's government of abusing power and trampling the rights of ordinary Russians.
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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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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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The detention of several journalists traveling to and from the deadly school siege in Russia is raising new concern about press freedom in the country, media watchdogs said Tuesday.
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Tens of thousands of people rallied Tuesday outside the Kremlin in a show of solidarity against terrorism. The demonstration came nearly a week after more than 350 people, many