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Protests erupted in cities across Russia on Saturday to demand the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Updated Sunday at 12:15 p.m. ET Tens of thousands of Russians took to the streets in protest on Saturday to demand the release of jailed opposition leader

Russian police detained dozens of protesters on Saturday as supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny took to the streets following his call to protest against President Vladimir Putin’s rule.

3,000 arrested at protests demanding Navalny’s release By Associated Press | January 23, 2021 at 12:33 PM EST - Updated January 24 at 8:51 AM MOSCOW (AP) — 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 h...

Police eventually pushed demonstrators out of the square. Thousands then regrouped along a wide boulevard about a kilometer (half-mile) away, many of them throwing snowballs at the police. The protests stretched across Russia’s vast territory, from the island city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk north of Japan and the eastern Siberian city of Yakutsk, where temperatures plunged to minus-50 Celsius, to Russia’s more populous European cities. Dmitri Lovetsky/AP People clash with police during the prot...

China conducts unusual military flights in Taiwanese airspace Its not unusual for China to conduct military flights between the southern part of Taiwan — which it claims as its territory — and the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands in the South China Sea, Reuters reports. In fact, the flights have occurred on a daily basis in recent months. But what happened Saturday does appear out of the ordinary. Eight nuclear-capable Chinese bombers and four fighter jets entered the southwestern co...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian police arrested more than 3,000 people Saturday in nationwide protests demanding the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Kremlins most prominent foe, according to a

Russian police Saturday arrested hundreds of protesters who braved freezing temperatures to advocate for authorities to release top opposition leader Alexey Navalny.

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

The opposition leader was arrested on January 17 when he returned to Moscow from Germany, where he had been recovering from nerve-agent poisoning.