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Moscow Police Detain Protesters at New Location

23:24 16/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 16 (RIA Novosti)

Police in Moscow on Wednesday night detained a Russian opposition figurehead, Ilya Yashin, and at least 16 other anti-Putin activists as they continued round-the-clock street protests on Kudrinskaya Square after being ejected from their previous Occupy-style tent camp in another part of the Russian capital.

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