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WORLD NEWS Monday 6 noveMber 2017

Hundreds of nationalist protesters arrested in Moscow

Square, adjacent to the protests to force President who formerly advised the
Kremlin, came two days Vladimir Putin’s resignation. Kremlin, suggested that the
after Russia’s domestic The OVD-Info organiza- large number of arrests ex-
security agency said it tion that monitors political aggerated any potential
had arrested some of the arrests said 376 people threat posed by the nation-
group’s members. They were detained Sunday in alist movement.
are suspected of planning Moscow and another 36 “Special services must con-
to firebomb administrative in three other cities. State stantly create threats, so
buildings. news agency Tass cited that they have something
The group, called Artpod- police officials as saying to neutralize. If there are
gotovka, was declared 263 were detained. no threats, there is no work
an extremist group by a It was not clear how many for the special services,”
Russian court last week. Its people had planned to Belkovskyhe said on inde-
exiled leader, Vyacheslav demonstrate. pendent radio station Ekho
Police officers detain a man during a protest in St.Petersburg,
Russia, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017. Scores of people have been ar- Maltsev, had called for Analyst Stanislav Belkovsky, Moskvy.q
rested in St. Petersburg and Moscow while trying to gather for an
unauthorized protest demonstration called for by an extreme
nationalist group.
(AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
MOSCOW (AP) — Hundreds an unauthorized demon-
of people were arrested in stration called by an ex-
the center of Moscow while treme nationalist group.
trying to gather Sunday for The arrests at Manezh

French women ask Macron for
his plans to fight sexual abuse

PARIS (AP) — Prominent France’s Legion of Honor
French women challenged to revoke Hollywood pro-
President Emmanuel Ma- ducer Harvey Weinstein’s
cron on Sunday to organize award over sexual violence
an “attack plan” against allegations against him.
sexual violence and ha- He urged women to speak
rassment, saying in a blunt out about abuse.Macron’s
verdict on the recent rev- government also is working
elations of alleged past on a bill that could tough-
abuses by powerful men: en rules on sexual assault
“Our society mistreats and, unusually, outlaw ha-
women.”About 100 per- rassment against women in
formers, filmmakers, writers the streets.
and others who say they The petition published Sun-
have suffered harassment day urges more aggressive
or abuse demanded ac- actions. Signatories want
tion in an open letter to the government to require
Macron and an online pe- companies to train staff on
tition carried in the Journal preventing sexual harass-
du dimanche newspaper. ment, double subsidies for
“Mr. President, we are fac- abuse hotlines and victim
ing a grave crisis. Are you help centers, and intro-
on our side?” they wrote. duce a mandatory non-
Their manifesto comes violence training program
amid an upsurge in sexual in all middle schools.They
misconduct allegations in- also want guarantees that
volving well-known men in women who report harass-
several Western countries. ment won’t risk losing their
In France, they include jobs.
members of the far-right “Like so many others, we
National Front party, a often had to face the de-
competitive sailor and a nial of people around us,
state television executive. the lack of being taken se-
Macron recently ordered riously by the authorities, q