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Hundreds of citizens have been arrested amid protests spanning 60 cities across Russia, sparked by the recent arrest of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Protests erupted in over 60 Russian cities on Saturday to demand the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin’s most prominent foe.

Moscow police clash with Navalny supporters as tens of thousands rally

More than 2,600 people have been arrested after protests erupted in at least 60 Russian cities to demand the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin’s most prominent foe. The protests, which took place in temperatures as low as minus 50C in some place, highlighted how Navalny’s influence stretches far beyond the political and cultural centres of Moscow and St Petersburg. In Moscow, an estimated 15,000 protesters gathered in and around Pushkin Square in the city centre, wher...

Police take a protester into custody in central Moscow. Photo: AFP Navalny had called on his supporters to protest after being arrested last weekend as he returned to Russia from Germany for the first time since being poisoned with a nerve agent he says was slipped to him by state security agents in August. Britain has joined the United States in condemning the brutal crackdown in Russia against Navalnys supporters. Foreign minister Dominc Raab said the UK calls on the Russian government to r...

Russian police briefly detained Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, at a protest in Moscow on Saturday, she wrote on her Instagram from inside a police van. She was later released. Navalny's wife was one of the many people that the police detained Saturday at rallies across Russia in his support following his call to protest against President Vladimir Putin's rule.

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

At least 2,432 people have been detained nationwide.

Unsanctioned rally ends in Moscow Earlier, the Moscow city police said that about 4,000 people had taken part in the unsanctioned rally on Pushkin Square in central Moscow MOSCOW, January 23. /TASS/. The unauthorized rally has ended in Moscow, TASS reported on Saturday. The streets and squares crowded with protesters have been cleared from people, although security measures are still tightened near Tverskaya Street and the Matrosskaya Tishina detention center, where law enforcers and protesters...

Russian police on Saturday arrested more than a thousand protesters who took to the streets in temperatures as low as minus-58 F.