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		</div><p>Russian police moved quickly on Saturday to disperse peaceful protests against Russian president Vladimir Putin’s military mobilisation order, arresting hundreds, including some children, in several cities across the country.</p>
<p>Police detained more than 700 people, including more than 300 in Moscow and about 150 in St Petersburg, according to OVD-Info, an independent website that monitors political arrests in Russia.</p>
<p>Some of the arrested individuals were minors, OVD-Info said.</p>
<p>The demonstrations followed protests that erupted within hours on Wednesday after Mr Putin, in a move to beef up his volunteer forces fighting in Ukraine, announced a call-up of experienced and skilled army reservists.</p>
<p>The Defence Ministry said about 300,000 people would be summoned to active duty, but the order left a door open to many more getting called into service. Most Russian men aged 18-65 are automatically counted as reservists.</p>
<p>On Saturday, police deployed in force in the cities where protests were scheduled by opposition group Vesna and supporters of jailed opposition leader, Alexei Navalny.</p>
<p>They moved quickly to arrest demonstrators, most of them young people, before they could hold protests.</p>
<p>In Moscow, a heavy contingent of police roamed a downtown area where a protest was planned in pouring rain and checked the IDs of passers-by.</p>
<p>Officers rounded up those they deemed suspicious and later distributed call-up summons to the men who were arrested.</p>
<p>A young woman climbed on a bench and shouted “We aren’t cannon fodder” before police took her away.</p>
<p>Police detained a man in a park just outside Red Square and whisked him away as others shouted “Shame.”</p>
<p>Before being rounded up in St Petersburg, a small group of demonstrators managed to briefly march along the main Nevsky avenue shouting “Putin into the trenches.”</p>
<p>In the city of Novosibirsk in eastern Siberia, more than 70 people were detained after singing an innocuous Soviet-era song praising peace.</p>
<p>People who tried to hold individual pickets that are allowed under Russian law also were detained.</p>
<p>The quick police action followed the dispersal of Wednesday’s protests, when more than 1,300 people were detained on Wednesday in Moscow, St Petersburg and other cities.</p>
<p>Putin on Saturday signed a hastily approved bill that toughens the punishment for soldiers who disobey officers’ orders, desert or surrender to the enemy.</p>
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