Moscow crackdown in pictures
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Images from Moscow where police made more than 1,000 arrests in one of the biggest crackdowns on an opposition rally in years.
Hundreds of people turned out in Moscow on Saturday for a banned rally in protest at the exclusion of opposition candidates from local elections in September
"Stop lying to us," read one placard
Security forces tried to block their way to city hall
They struggled to keep demonstrators from pulling down barriers
Batons were drawn as the two sides faced off
A number of people were hurt - here National Guardsmen help an injured man during the rally
One by one, protesters were taken away
They were being taken to police stations
By evening more than 1,000 people had been detained
President Vladimir Putin was out of town on a trip under the Baltic Sea in a submersible, to see the wreck of a WW2 submarine
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