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Russian authorities raided the homes of people involved in a Moscow demonstration, stepping up a crackdown that threatens to be the harshest since officials crushed large-scale protests in 2012.
Interior Ministry officers and Federal Security Service agents were searching for information on electronic devices that proved participation in the unauthorised protest or how it was organised, the state-run Tass news service reported, citing an unidentified law enforcement official.
More than 1,400 were detained at the recent protest that was violently dispersed by police, and at least 60 have been jailed.
The mass searches followed the breakdown of negotiations between officials and opposition leaders about the
location for another planned demonstration in the capital on August 3.
Police detained a representative of the Libertarian Party political group that had sought permission for the event as he left the talks. He was jailed for 30 days for involvement in an earlier protest.