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Hundreds arrested at opposition protest in Moscow (PHOTOS)

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Servicemen of the Russian National Guard and riot police block an area during an unauthorized rally in downtown Moscow on July 27, 2019. The protesters demanded that independent and opposition candidates be allowed to run for office in a local election in September.
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Russian police detained more than 1,300 pro-democracy protestors on July 27, as they violently broke up a demonstration related to independent and opposition candidates being barred from running in a local election in September. Read the story here.