Russian nationalists fight with police
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Right-wing nationalists and residents in a northern Russian town clashed with riot police and destroyed a restaurant, activists and witnesses said Saturday.
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Russia's fragmented opposition  marshalled its thin ranks against President Vladimir Putin on  Saturday, but a modest turnout at a Moscow rally -- dwarfed by  the police presence -- only underscored his grip on power.
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Hate crimes in Russia have grown increasingly brutal and deadly but authorities do little to combat xenophobia, one of the country's leading rights groups said Tuesday.
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Russian riot police break up a rare rally by opponents to President Vladimir Putin in central St Petersburg.
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Police violently broke up an unauthorized opposition rally in Russia's second-largest city Saturday, clubbing dozens of activists before dragging them into waiting buses.
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Russian police detained gay protesters  calling for the right to hold a Gay Pride parade in central  Moscow on Sunday while nationalists shouting &quot;death to  homosexuals&quot; punched and kicked the demonstrators.
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A brawl erupted between spectators, officials, police and competitors at the Olympic freestyle wrestling Sunday after a close bout between a Russian and Belarussian athlete.
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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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Georgia and Russia clashed at the United Nations on Wednesday over an incident in which Georgian security forces killed two Russian officers training insurgents in the breakaway region of Abkhazia.
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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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Russian authorities for the first time  blocked nationalists from using a popular Internet blog to  organize anti-migrant demonstrations, one of the leaders of a  nationalist group told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Russian police raid the offices of an anti-establishment group that specialises in high-profile protests.
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Four militants and two policemen die in a clash near Gudermes in Russia's volatile southern republic of Chechnya.
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VIOLENCE between neo-Nazis and leftist extremists rocked several towns in eastern Germany over the weekend, as police battled to keep demonstrators apart at political rallies.
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The Russian company wins a legal skirmish.
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A shootout in Chechnya's capital left two policemen and a rebel dead, the Chechen Interior Ministry said Friday.
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Two police officers were arrested Thursday in the Russian republic of Ingushetia on charges of aiding Chechen guerrilla leader Shamil Basayev, Russian officials announced.