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Court bans anti-Putin protests

A Moscow court on Tuesday ordered the police to break up a week-long occupy protest that spontaneously emerged after Vladimir Putin's swearing in. The city district court said it was acting on behalf of local residents. The small but daring action - not seen in any Russian city since Putin's domination began in 1999 - tested the limits to which the ruling elite was willing to put up with dissent now popular in much of the West.
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