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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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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Russia started pulling out some of its   diplomats, military staff and their families from Georgia on   Friday as the small ex-Soviet state pressed spying charges   against a group of Russian army officers.
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Russia's Foreign Ministry accused Europe's main security organization Friday of playing political games in the dispute over election monitors.
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Tens of thousands of Russians gathered in cities and towns across the country on Saturday to protest an unpopular benefits reform and call for the government's ouster, while pro-Kremlin forces organized counter-demonstrations supporting President Vladimir Putin.
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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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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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Supporters and critics of Russia&#39;s president are demonstrating in Moscow, with both groups calling attention to Kremlin plans to consolidate power.
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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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Â· OSCE says restrictions prevent it doing its jobÂ· Russia accuses observers of double standards
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MOSCOW -- About 1,000 people gathered in front of the US and British embassies in Moscow Friday, accusing the countries of having a double standard in the war on terror.
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Police stopped angry retirees from blocking traffic Monday, the third day of protests in President Vladimir Putin's hometown against welfare benefit cutoffs that have sparked the largest outburst of public anger in the Russian leader's five years in power.
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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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MOSCOW  - Thousands rallied at a government-sponsored demonstration Thursday to hail sweeping electoral changes proposed by President Vladimir Putin to fight terrorism. A much smaller group gathered near parliament to complain the proposals would strip Russians of basic legal rights.
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ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia  - Hundreds of protesters occupied the regional administration headquarters in a southern Russian province Tuesday in an outpouring of public anger over a multiple slaying linked to the local president's son-in-law.
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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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The EU calls on Russia to lift economic sanctions it imposed on Georgia amid a bitter spying row.