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.

Dozens of members of a Russian opposition party and other activists were detained by police Sunday as they tried to gather for a protest rally in central St. Petersburg.

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.