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activist Fayil Alsynov.The mass protests in the small Bashkir town of Baymak were a rare display of public discontent amid sweeping
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mass unrest to using violence against law enforcement officials.On Thursday, a Louisiana immigration court granted Mukhamedyarov
prosecutors have 30 days to appeal the ruling
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