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Another suspected Bolotnaya Square rioter detained in Moscow

Police searched Kovyadin's apartment
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MOSCOW, September 6 (Itar-Tass) — Moscow police detained another suspected Bolotnaya Square rioter, an official at the Investigative Committee told Itar-Tass.

"Leonid Kovyadin, 26, has been identified by an eye-witness as a person who took an active part in mass disturbances /in the course of the March of Millions on May 6/," the official said, adding that according to the eye-witness, Kovyadin had overturned several toilet booths on the roadside and moved them to the thoroughfare.

Police searched Kovyadin's apartment. He is a native of the Kirov region. A court will consider the measure of restraint for him.