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EU calls for Kremlin critic Andrei Pivovarov's release

The bloc is demanding the release of a prominent Russian opposition figure who was removed from a Warsaw-bound plane in St. Petersburg on Monday. The former director of the pro-democracy Open Russia group is one of several activists arrested in recent days.

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