MOSCOW: Twelve Russians went on trial in Moscow on Thursday accused of violence at a rally on the eve of President Vladimir Putin's inauguration last year, in a process condemned by critics as a show trial aimed at suffocating dissent.
Ten defendants were participating in the hearing from inside a glass-walled cage known as an "aquarium" while two more, who are not under arrest, were seated on a bench.
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