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Thousands of people across Russia have protested against a deeply unpopular pension reform, despite concessions offered recently by President Vladimir Putin.

“Today, we are holding an all-Russia protest against this cannibalistic reform,” Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov told a crowd of several thousand protesters gathered in Moscow on Sept. 2.

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