OUTRAGED CITIZENS BEAT UDMURT CITY MAYOR.

A group of Udmurtsin the central Russian city of Izhevsk picketed the city governmentheadquarters and then beat up the mayor because he had raisedtheir taxes in order to pay for the construction of a dacha, Kommersant-Dailysaid June 28. Such incidents reflect the rise in social tensionsthroughout Russia this year.

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