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Anti-Putin Protest Thwarted by Police

22:31 31/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 31 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)

A massive police presence in snowy downtown Moscow prevented followers of radical firebrand politician Eduard Limonov from demonstrating on Tuesday evening against the expected return of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to the Kremlin this spring.

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