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The opposition leaders wife Yulia was among those arrested.

Yulia Navalnaya, 44, wife of Putin-critic Alexi Navalny, has been released from police custody in Moscow She posted a selfie in the back of the police van after her arrest as thousands of Navalny supporters joined  Alexei Navalny was jailed for 30 days upon his return to Russia on January 17 after months spent in Germany   On Monday, he urged his supporters to take to the streets in protest his arrest. People obliged on Saturday Protests took in temperatures as low as minus 60F (51C), with ...

The Russian Foreign Ministry blamed the US Embassy in Moscow for interference in opposition rallies in Russia, which are the country's domestic affairs.

Police clashed violently with protesters in Moscow and arrested more than 2,500 demonstrators in cities across the country on January 23 as Russians took to the streets to denounce Kremlin rule and demand the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Pekka Haavisto (Green) has called on Russia to release peaceful demonstrators arrested on Saturday. Police detained more than 3,000 people and used force to break up rallies across Russia on Saturday as tens of thousands of protesters ignored extreme cold and police warnings to demand the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. He was detained a week earlier as he returned to the country following an attempted poisoning there in August. Those arrested on Saturday included his wife, Yul...

Russian authorities warned of mass arrests as demonstrators marched in open defiance of the Kremlin and called on President Vladimir Putin to free the jailed opposition leader.

MOSCOW – Russian police arrested more than 3,000 people Saturday in nationwide protests demanding the release of opposition leader Alexei Navaln ...

Police have rounded up more than 3,000 people at rallies across the country in support of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. Over 1,000 people were detained in Moscow alone.

A wave of protests swept across Russia on Saturday — in what appears to be the most significant challenge to Vladimir Putin’s authority in a decade. At least 100,000, likely much more, took to the streets of over a hundred towns and cities over eleven time zones, in the middle of a pandemic, in temperatures that in one case reached minus 50, and despite credible threats and occasional reality of a violent crackdown. The protesters were calling...

Attempts by US diplomats to incite radical actions are doomed to failure, the Russian Foreign Ministry said