... saying most of those detained were from other cities, unemployed, or homeless, Interfax reported. But protesters have remained on the streets despite police efforts. White Paddy Wagon activist Vadim Dergachev denied reports that the protesters had been evicted from their latest stronghold on the pedestrian street Arbat, writing on Twitter that at least 150 people remained on the street Sunday morning. He later tweeted "Protest camp Occupy Arbat is alive, well and in full strength." Protesters...

... contribution for running the center, which treats all children free of charge. Together with generous donations (from Russians and non-Russians), a sum has been accumulated and put aside for the purchase of new premises to house the center, which faces eviction when the lease expires in two years' time. Dr. Romanov Children's Rehabilitation Center. 52 Ulitsa Zamshina, bldg. 1. St. Petersburg. Tel. (812) 544-58-44. www.romanov-rehab.org . 457993 179741

... several other activists on Thursday evening after she invited demonstrators on Kudrinskaya Ploshchad to a Saturday protest against construction in a forest in the Moscow region city of Zhukovsky, Chirikova said on Twitter. Given the ever-present risk of eviction, protesters kept up their search for a more permanent setting to hold their “nonstop” protest against President Vladimir Putin, whose inauguration last week sparked sporadic protests that show no signs of abating. A proposal from...

... several who were walking by the U.S. Embassy. The police later issued a statement saying the camp had been cleared "because of complaints from local residents" and violations of unspecified sanitary norms on food eaten on the square. Dozens of evicted protesters moved to the Arbat, while others settled at Nikitskiye Gates around a monument to Kliment Timiryazev, a prominent Russian physiologist. The Nikitskiye Gates group was broken up later Saturday morning by the police, who directed the...

... arrested this month in Baku. Activists say some buildings in the center of the city were torn down to make way for the Eurovision arena, the extravagantly illuminated 23,000-seat Crystal Hall on the shores of the Caspian Sea, and residents were forcibly evicted without proper compensation. The 28-year-old pop singer won with the song “Euphoria” in the annual competition of 42 countries, delighting viewers and the contest’s professional judges and dancing barefoot as she sang. After...

... elsewhere in Russia because of the incident. "I will leave this university exactly because of this situation," Alquzuq said by telephone. A spokesman for the Palestinian Embassy in Moscow said officials there hadn't heard about the students' eviction. The city's letter specified that access to the camping zone Dubki — which includes several children's camps and the dormitory, which stands on the grounds of a former children's camp — would require special ID cards and that a checkpoint...