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Hundreds of demonstrators walked through downtown Moscow on August 15 to protest against a growing number of arrests of young Russians on extremism charges for material shared or stored on social media sites.

Braving a torrential summer downpour, the demonstrators joined what was called the March of the Mothers. They expressed concern that they could not protect their teenage children against what many consider to be an extensive online entrapment campaign by the Federal Security Service, or FSB, and other security agencies.

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