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Sun 12 Dec 2008Russian police block anti-government demonstrations
Police today blocked Kremlin opponents from holding unlicensed marches in Russia's two main cities over the economic crisis, witnesses said, and detained more than 150 activists.
Marches of Discontent have become a trademark protest by a coalition of small opposition groups from liberals to communists led by former world chess champion Garry Kasparov and writer Eduard Limonov, the head of outlawed National-Bolshevik party.
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