FORMER chess champion Garry Kasparov was arrested by riot police during an anti-Kremlin rally in Moscow yesterday. Police moved in on about 150 protesters after they broke through a cordon and tried to march on the Central Elections Commission.

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.

By Mansur Mirovalev Associated Press MOSCOW -- Russian authorities arrested former world chess champion Garry Kasparov on Saturday and sentenced him to five days in prison after he helped lead a protest against President Vladimir Putin that ended in clashes with police.

MOSCOW _ Riot police broke up a march against President Vladimir Putin in the Russian capital Saturday and arrested chess legend Garry Kasparov and several other opposition leaders, a clampdown on pro-democracy protesters a week before Russia's pivotal parliament election.

Russian authorities arrested former world chess champion Garry Kasparov on Saturday and sentenced him to five days in prison after he helped lead a protest against President Vladimir Putin that ended in clashes with police.