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		</div><p>About three dozen people have been arrested at unauthorised rallies in Moscow, a week after anti-government protests broke out across Russia.</p>
<p>The police presence was notably heavy in central Moscow. Pedestrians could only access Red Square by passing through metal detectors and police blocked off Pushkin Square, traditionally a gathering point for demonstrations.</p>
<p>Twenty-nine people were arrested while trying to conduct a march on Triumphalnaya Square and seven others were detained at Manezhnaya Square, which is adjacent to the Kremlin, according to police figures reported by the state news agency Tass.</p>
<p>Separately, well-known opposition activist Ildar Dadin was arrested while picketing outside a police station, according to OVD-Info, a group that monitors political repression. Mr Dadin gained prominence in Russia&#8217;s opposition community after being the first person sentenced to prison under harsh protest-suppression measures pushed through by the Kremlin in 2014.</p>
<p>He said he was repeatedly beaten in prison, where he served about half of a two-and-a-half year sentence.<br />
In St Petersburg, one person was arrested as about 20 people tried to organise a small rally outside Gostiny Dvor, a sprawling retail structure on the city&#8217;s main avenue, the Interfax news agency cited police as saying.</p>
<p>Last week&#8217;s protests, in which more than 1,000 people were arrested in Moscow alone, were the largest opposition show of defiance in several years.</p>
<p>The unexpected size and scope of those protests raised questions about Kremlin strategy &#8211; whether it would try to address the protesters&#8217; issues or work to undermine or overtly suppress the opposition.<br />
The new arrests, as well as comments by President Vladimir Putin last week, suggested authorities will act firmly against protests.</p>
<p>&#8220;Everybody should act in political processes within the framework of the law. All those who go outside this law should bear punishment in accordance with Russian law,&#8221; Mr Putin said Thursday.</p>
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