MOSCOW (Reuters) - More than 10 weeks after losing a local council election in western Moscow, Vladimir Putin's party is clinging to power there - by fair means or foul.
The standoff over control of Filyovsky Park Council came to a head when opposition councillor Vadim Korovin tried to sit in the chairman's seat at a meeting on Tuesday. A councillor from the Russian president's United Russia cut his microphone cable and then body-checked him as he tried to reach the seat.
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