Baton-wielding Russian police crack down on anti-Putin protests

Baton-wielding Russian police in body armor brutally ended weeks of anti-government protests in the country’s Far East Saturday by hauling away 25 people and tearing down protest tents in a central square, Reuters reported. Anti-Kremlin demonstrations have been ongoing in the city of Khabarovsk, 3,800 miles east of Moscow, for three months. Locals were angry...