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A Russian opposition activist has been placed under arrest for 15 days after an incident in which his wife said he did nothing wrong. A court in the southern city of Krasnodar found Leonid Martynyuk guilty of minor hooliganism on August 27 after he was pushed and cursed by a stranger at a railway station. 

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