OPPOSITION RALLY IN MOSCOW
A woman holds a portrait of jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky during an opposition rally downtown Moscow on April 14, 2007. Police detained Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion, and more than 100 other activists Saturday as they gathered for a forbidden anti-Kremlin demonstration in central Moscow. (UPI Photo/Anatoli Zhdanov)
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