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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...
Tens of thousands of Alexei Navalny supporters have protested across Russia in one of the largest demonstrations against Vladimir Putin’s rule in the last decade. More than 1,870 people were arrested by riot police on Saturday at dozens of unsanctioned rallies throughout the country, spanning from Kaliningrad in the west to Vladivostok in the far east, as the turnout of those calling for the opposition leader’s release from jail far surpassed...
75 shares People attend a rally in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in downtown Moscow on January 23, 2021. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA / AFP) Police detain a man during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in People gather in Saint Petersburg, Russia, January 23, 2021. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky) Police try to disperse protesters during a rally in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in downtown Moscow on January 23, 2021. (Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP) Police detain a man during a rally in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in ...
Thousands of opposition supporters arrested across Russia 1 minute read Moscow, Jan 23 (efe-epa).- Supporters of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who has been in custody for six days, took to the streets in a hundred Russian cities on Saturday to challenge President Vladimir Putin despite a violent police crackdown and more than 2,000 arrests across the country. Navalny has been in custody since he was detained upon his return to Russia last week. He had been in Germany recovering from the poisoning he suffered last year. The opposition leader and the international community suspec...
Lyubov Sobol, a lawyer for Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, has been detained by police on a charge of calling for an unsanctioned rally in relation to a planned nationwide protest on January 23 in support of the jailed Kremlin critic.