Russian police detain gay activists
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Police detained gay rights activists, among them European lawmakers, as they tried to present a letter to Moscow's mayor Sunday in a demonstration that also attracted a hostile crowd of people who punched and threw eggs at the activists.
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Russian gay activists vowed Saturday to demonstrate in Moscow despite a ban by the city authorities, a year after a similar attempt led to arrests by police and attacks by right-wing nationalists.
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The Israeli police announced the arrest of a group of young immigrants from the former Soviet Union on Sunday on charges of attacking religious Jews, homosexuals, Asians and other foreigners.
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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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A pro-government youth group said Monday that it had raided outdoor markets in the Moscow region to help authorities find illegal migrants, and that police detained several dozen people after fighting broke out.
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ST. PETERSBURG -- Police clubbed protesters and dragged them into waiting buses yesterday in response to a defiant demonstration against the Kremlin in the heart of President Vladimir Putin's hometown.
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Those arrested included a Chechen crime boss and career officers from Russiaâs police and intelligence services.
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Police briefly detained Belarusian opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich on Monday for the third time in two weeks, accusing him of drug trafficking, his spokesman said.Comment
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The mayor of the Russian Far East's largest city was ordered arrested Wednesday amid a criminal investigation into suspect land deals and embezzlement in the latest bout of corruption to hit the long-troubled port.
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Police on Wednesday freed seven young people who were detained the day before during protests against a much-criticized referendum that cleared the way for Belarus' authoritarian president to stay in power indefinitely, Russian media reported.
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Russian police have detained 11  teenagers for beating an immigrant from former Soviet  Kyrgyzstan with metal chains, a spokeswoman for the Moscow  prosecutor said on Wednesday.
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TBILISI -- Four Russian military officers were arrested on spying charges yesterday, and police surrounded a Russian military headquarters here demanding that a fifth Russian officer be handed over to authorities. The operation sparked a furious reaction from Russia, which demanded the officers' release, accusing its southern neighbor of ``a fresh outrage."
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Belarusian police have detained four people in connection with the July slaying of the American editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, Interfax reported.
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Russian authorities pulled hundreds of opposition activists off buses and trains and detained them along with scores of others on Saturday ahead of a rare anti-government rally in Moscow, organizers said.
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Belarussian security officers on Monday detained opposition leader and former presidential candidate Alexander Milinkevich as he made his way to a rally, his wife told AFP.
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Gay activists and Western mayors express shock at anti-homosexual violence in Moscow.
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Plainclothes agents broke up a Valentine's Day march by opposition activists expressing pro-European views, detaining about 10 people in the capital of the tightly controlled ex-Soviet republic of Belarus.