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Police Visit TV Channel

Police on Tuesday seized a video from the Dozhd television channel of a July attack on the Khimki city administration building, Gazeta.ru reported.

Police have visited other media outlets that covered the attack, which saw 90 to 300 people pelting the building with stones and smoke grenades to protest the cutting down of the Khimki forest for an $8 billion highway. 

(MT)

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