Thousands of Russians Protest Benefits Change
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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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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands  - More than 150,000 people took to the streets to protest planned cuts to social benefits in what police described as the largest anti-government demonstration in the Netherlands in 20 years.
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A couple hundred people rallied outside the US Department of Labor here yesterday to protest the Bush administration&#39;s sweeping changes to overtime rules that opponents say could
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Mass protests force the Russian cabinet to spend $3,7bn (Â£2bn) to soften the blow from benefits reform.
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MOSCOW  - Tens of thousands of Russians protested across the country Saturday against a law replacing transportation and medical benefits for pensioners with cash payments, but were countered by massive rival demonstrations organized by pro-Kremlin forces.
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Hundreds of protesters ransacked and occupied the regional administration building in a southern Russian province Tuesday, demanding the resignation of the
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Russians marked the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution on Sunday with marches, Communist rallies and protests against a parliamentary proposal to scrap what was once the most sacred Soviet holiday.
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Thousands of demonstrators brought protests against benefit cuts to the German capital yesterday, but the Government insisted it would make no further change to measures it sees as key to a more competitive economy.
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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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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday his government had bungled the implementation of changes to the country's creaking social security system but stood by the reform despite week-long protests by pensioners.
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Frustrated with meager salaries that have not kept pace with inflation, teachers, doctors and other state employees rallied Wednesday across Russia to demand higher wages.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia  - 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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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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Tens of thousands of people supporting opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko rallied in Ukraine&#39;s capital yesterday demanding that next week&#39;s presidential election be free and fair.
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Dozens of political figures including former heads of state and government have signed a letter calling on the West to toughen its stand on the state of democracy in Russia.
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President Vladimir Putin's moves to tighten control over legislators and regional leaders has jeopardized the Kremlin's grip on the nation, analysts said, pointing to widespread protests over legislation replacing benefits for millions of Russians with cash stipends.
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MOSCOW -- Tens of thousands of demonstrators -- many waving banners and flags -- gathered in Moscow&#39;s Red Square Tuesday in a show of unity against terrorism after last week&#39;s hostage-taking at a school in Beslan in southern Russia.