http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2157675/Russian-police-raid-homes-anti-Putin-activists-crackdown-critics-return-days-Stalin.html
Ahead of a planned...possibly massive...protest tomorrow on 'Russia Day'...Moscow police ransacked the homes of President Putin's leading opposition leaders.
A statement said 10 homes were searched...including those of Alexei Navalny, Ilya Yashin, Sergei Udaltsov and Ksenia Sobchak.
Police also forced them to come in for questioning.
Putin recently signed a new law that raises the penalties for illegal protesters...by 150-fold ...to over $9,000...the average annual salary.
It may be another case of the adage...that you can take the man out of the KGB...but you can't take the KGB/FSB...out of the man.
Human rights groups are protesting the searches...and intimidation measures.
TO READ:..for more detailed raid coverage:
www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/11/us-russia-protests-idUSBRE85A18M20120611
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