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Opposition Party to Protest Controversial Protest Law

08:11 27/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 27 (RIA Novosti)

Russian opposition party Yabloko will on Sunday hold a rally in Moscow to protest a controversial new draft law that could see fines for unsanctioned protests rise by two hundred times, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.

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