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Police officers detain an opposition activist dressed as the Grandfather Frost during the New Year's Eve anti-Kremlin protest in downtown Moscow, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009.
Friday, Jan. 07, 2011

Open quoteNo one but us will solve our problems or build a sovereign democratic state in Russia.Close quote

  • MIKHAIL MARGELOV,
  • chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the upper house of the Russian parliament, responding to U.S. criticism after Moscow police arrested top opposition leaders at a New Year's Eve protest
Photo: AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev | Source: NYT