Protests over welfare cuts in St. Petersburg spread to other Russian cities
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ST.PETERSBURG, Russia  - Pensioners and veterans angered over the cutoff of welfare payments clogged streets and paralysed traffic in St. Petersburg, hometown to President Vladimir Putin, for a second day Sunday and the street demonstrations spread to other Russian cities.
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Tens of thousands of people from across Italy march in Rome to demand work and pension reforms.
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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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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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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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Hundreds of thousands of civil servants go on strike in protest at looming job cuts.
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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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Eastern Germany sees more mass protests over welfare cuts, with smaller rallies in western cities.
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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.
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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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Anarchists from across northern Europe flocked to join protesters in the Danish capital on Saturday after two nights of riots sparked by the eviction of squatters from an abandoned building that had been a center for young leftists and punk rockers.
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In the biggest protest in two decades, thousands gather in the Dutch capital to  voice anger at welfare cutbacks.
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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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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.    Mourners in the grief-stricken city of Beslan lowered caskets into the damp earth in a third day of burials from the siege, which officials have blamed on Chechens and other Islamic militants...
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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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ODESSA, Ukraine  - A statue of Catherine the Great has sparked a fierce row in the multi-ethnic Ukrainian port of Odessa, with riot police confronting Cossack demonstrators in the street after midnight.
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Hundreds of thousands take to the streets across Russia in rallies for and against controversial welfare reform.