All Posts Tagged With: "Gostiny Dvor"

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Petersburg ‘Strategy 31’ Organizers Face Charges (updated)

Two Strategy 31 organizers in St. Petersburg have been released from police detention but now face extremism charges, while a third has been sentenced to 27 days of administrative arrest.

Nov 3, 2010 | Continued
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St. Petersburg ‘Strategy 31’ Organizer Gets 14 Days Arrest

A St. Petersburg opposition leader has been fined and sentenced to 14 days of arrest for organizing a rally in defense of free assembly.

Sep 18, 2010 | Continued
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Anti-Putin Report Will Be Distributed ‘All Over Country’

Opposition leaders succeeded in handing out 2000 samizdat copies of ‘Putin. Results. 10 Years’ in St. Petersburg despite the fact that police had already confiscated 200 thousand copies of the controversial report.

Jun 21, 2010 | Continued
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Police Detain 170 at Freedom of Assembly Rally

Police detained as many as 170 protesters in Moscow during a rally in defense of the constitutional right to the freedom of assembly, many of whom were beaten and at least two of whom were hospitalized.

Jun 1, 2010 | Continued