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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2012
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NEWS OF THE WORLD
Associated Press
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Demonstrators hold posters featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin and reading "FSB, You Stop It," during a protest rally in support of jailed opposition activists in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday. FSB is a Russian acronym for the Federal Security Services.
Protesters urge activists' release
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MOSCOW— Several hundred demonstrators rallied in Moscow on Tuesday to press for the release of opposition activists on the same day that Russia commemorated the victims of Soviet-era repression.
Protesters demanded that authorities free more than a dozen people who are in jail facing accusations over their role in a May protest that turned violent, among other charges. The opposition calls them "political prisoners."
President Vladimir Putin has launched a multi-pronged crackdown on dissent since being inaugurated for a third term in May. He has signed off on several repressive laws and allowed numerous arrests and searches of opposition activists.
One of the jailed activists, Leonid
Razvozzhayev, said he had been abducted from Ukraine while seeking a political asylum and smuggled back into Russia where he was tortured into confessing. Russian authorities say he turned himself in.
Participants in the rally, which ended peacefully, demanded punishment for those involved in the abduction and torture of Razvozhyay.
Leftist leader Sergei Udaltsov, who himself is facing charges of plotting riots which he has rejected as politically motivated, called on opposition supporters to keep pressing for the jailed activists' release or face a "long totalitarian winter."
district of Butovo, where some 20,000 priests, artists and other "enemies of the people" were executed at the height of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's purges.
The rally came on the day when Russia paid tribute to the victims of Soviet-era repression. Mourners attended a church service Tuesday at a former range range at Moscow's
Millions of Soviet people were sent into prison camps and either died there or were executed in mass purges that continued until Stalin's death in 1953.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev marked the day by issuing a harsh criticism of Stalin, which contrasted with a more cautious stance taken by Putin, who has restored Soviet-era symbols and tried to soften public perceptions of Stalin in the past.
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Medvedev told members of the Kremlin's United Russia party that Stalin and his entourage committed a grave crime by "waging a war against their own people."
Airstrikes close to Syrian capital kill 18 people, level neighborhood
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BEIRUT — Airstrikes by Syrian jets and shells from tanks leveled a neighborhood in a resive city near the capital of Damascus on Tuesday, killing 18 people, and at least five rebel fighters died in clashes with regime troops, activists said.
The airstrikes on the city of Douma, northeast of the capital, left residents scampering over a huge expanse of rubble and using their hands to dig up mangled bodies, according to activist videos posted online.
Scenes of vast destruction like those from Douma on Tuesday have
grown more common as rebels seeking to topple President on the basher Assad have made gains on the ground, and Assad's forces have responded with overwhelming air power.
In the past weeks, anti-regime activists say about 150 people have been killed a day in fighting. Since the uprising against Assad began in March 2011, they say 35,000 have died.
The death toll for what was supposed to be a four-day cease-fire ending Monday exceeded 500.
Tuesday's airstrikes came a day after what activists called the heaviest and most widespread bombing campaign nationwide on what was to be the final day of an internationally sanctioned truce that never took hold.
Activists speculated that the government's heavy reliance on air power reflected its inability to roll back rebel gains, especially in the north of the country near the border with Turkey, where rebels have control of swathes of territory.
The international community remains at a loss about how to stop the Syria violence. The U.S. and other Western and Arab nations have called on Assad to step down, while Russia, China and Iran continue to back him.
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A rebel fighter belonging to the Gateebee Sokor Al-Islam group fires a gun at an army jet flying a bombing run on nearby rebel positions in the district of Aleppo Jedida, Syria. Syrian fighter jets pounded rebel areas across the country on Monday with scores of airstrikes.
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