1 February: Nearly 50 people including radical opposition leader Eduard Limonov were detained Tuesday in Moscow as they sought to stage a protest asserting the right to freedom of assembly, organisers and police said.(Agence France Presse)

Around 100 people turned up for an unsanctioned rally in central Moscow organised by Limonov, the leftist leader of The Other Russia opposition movement who has been repeatedly arrested during similar rallies in the past. "Several people have been detained including Limonov," Alexander Averin, spokesman for The Other Russia, told AFP. A spokesman for Moscow police told AFP that a total of 49 people had been detained at the rally.

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