By empty (2/12/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Interior Ministry said 239,600 people took part in mass actions across Russia on Saturday to state their attitude to current social welfare reforms. The ministry told Interfax that 238 cities, town and villages spreading over 62 regions had served as venues for the events. \"No breaches of the peace have been committed in the course of the mass actions,\" the ministry press service said.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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