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Nationalists Stage Minor Rally In Central Moscow


Nationalists demonstrating in Moscow today (RFE/RL) April 8, 2007 -- Several hundred young supporters of Russian nationalist groups rallied under heavy guard in downtown Moscow today.


About 400 demonstrators gathered for about an hour, surrounded by hundreds of Interior Ministry troops and police.


They held banners and speakers at the rally called for Russia to expand its clout in the former Soviet lands.


Authorities had denied a request by organizers to allow a march through a major downtown thoroughfare.


Speakers included Eurasian Movement leader Aleksandr Dugin and others who back a more assertive Russian role in the former Soviet Union.


The rally concluded peacefully.


(AP)

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