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A Russian member of the ultra-left National-Bolshevik Party (NBP) stands wearing a mask under a portrait of a fellow NBP member, who is among the 46 who were arrested last year for attempts to take over federal government buildings, in central Moscow, 01 May 2005. Communists have been angry over plans by Putin’s government to alter Soviet-era social benefits. Tens of thousands of people from across the political spectrum flooded onto Russia’s streets as the nation marked the Soviet-era Labor holiday which coincides with Orthodox Easter this year. AFP PHOTO / DENIS SINYAKOV