MOSCOW, July 1 — Russian investigators said yesterday they were looking into a journalist's allegations he had been assaulted by two policemen at a polling station in St Petersburg during a vote to change the constitution and that they had broken his arm. Russians have been voting to amend the...
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MOSCOW, July 1 — Russian investigators said yesterday they were looking into a journalist's allegations he had been assaulted by two policemen at a polling station in St Petersburg during a vote to change the constitution and that they had broken his arm.
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