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EPA-EFE/ MAXIM SHIPENKOV However, the Russian police announced that about 4.000 demonstrators had gathered, Russian news agency TASS reports. TASS writes that police officers on the ground continue to warn that the rally is illegal, while arresting the most active participants. From Moscow to Vladivostok, supporters of the famous anti-corruption activist, who is believed to have been poisoned this summer, have announced calls for gatherings in 65 Russian cities. Demonstrators in Moscow cl...

Russian police arrested more than 3,000 people in nationwide protests demanding the release of Putin critic and opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

MOSCOW • Russian police arrested more than 3,000 people Saturday in nationwide protests demanding the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin’s most prominent foe, according to a group

URL copied People protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Russia Russian police arrested more than 3,000 people Saturday in nationwide protests demanding the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin’s most prominent foe, according to a group that counts political detentions. The protests in scores of cities in temperatures as low as minus-50 C (minus-58 F) highlighted how Navalny has built influence far beyond the political and c...

MOSCOW: Russian police on Saturday detained over 1,000 protesters, including the wife of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, as several thousands took to the streets nationwide to denounce...

More than 3,000 people were arrested Saturday in Russia as protesters braved sub-zero temperatures and called for the release of Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin's most prominent foe.

Demonstrators calling for the opposition leader to be freed braved temperatures as low as minus 50C in some places.

Videos posted on social media show officers beating unarmed protesters

MOSCOW — Russian police arrested more than 2,600 people Saturday in nationwide protests demanding the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin’s most prominent foe, according to a group that counts political detentions.

Protests erupted in dozens of cities across Russia yesterday to demand the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Kremlins most prominent foe.