About 1,200 people detained in Moscow on December 18 for provocation of mass riots

About 1,200 people detained in Moscow on December 18 for provocation of mass riots
December 19, 2010 - 16:18 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Police have detained over 2,100 protesters in Moscow and Moscow region on December 18 amid new wave of race disturbances.

About 1,200 people, many of them with non-lethal weapons, knives and baseball bats were detained in Moscow. Other 800 people were detained across Moscow region, local police spokesman Yevgeny Gildeev said.

About 100 people were detained near the All-Russian Exhibition Center (VVTs) in northeastern Moscow, RIA Novosti reported.

"Several groups of youth, each containing from ten to twenty people, were detained near the central entrance to VVTs and in close vicinity to the exhibition center. These citizens were detained in order to prevent and suppress unlawful acts," a police source said.

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