WASHINGTON D.C., February 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Srdja Trifkovic, Foreign Affairs Editor of Chronicles and Executive Director of The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies,

RIOT police rounded up scores of opposition activists, including leaders of top liberal parties, rallying against President Vladimir Putin's government.

Police in St. Petersburg, Russia, stopped an unauthorized protest Sunday, detaining dozens of protesters who allegedly clashed with them. The demonstration by about 100 people came one day after police disrupted a similar anti-government protest in Moscow, RIA Novosti reported. St.

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Text of report by Interfax-Ukraine news agency Kiev, 9 October: Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has dismissed his advisers [Russian politician] Boris Nemtsov, [Ukrainian MP] Kseniya Lyapina and [former Ukrainian MP] Mykhaylo Syrota.