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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9407
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/russia

Commission “very concerned” by violent dispersal of peaceful demonstrations in Moscow and Saint Petersburg

Brussels, 16/04/2007 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has expressed its grave concern at the events of the weekend in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where peaceful demonstrations by opponents of the president Vladimir putin were violently broken up by the police. “We are very concerned by the events in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Freedom of expression and of assembly are very important values to which Russia has subscribed under the OSCE, the United Nations and the Council of...

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