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Flashmob Protest against NATO Summit in Brussels

19:23 20/05/2012 BRUSSELS, May 20 (RIA Novosti)

Some hundred people organized on Sunday in the center of Brussels a flashmob protest against NATO summit, which opens today in Chicago, local media reported.

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