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Anti-Putin Protests Lead to Over 4,000 Arrests Across Russia Bloomberg 1/31/2021 Henry Meyer and Benjamin Dow (Bloomberg) -- More than 4,000 people were arrested across Russia, including the wife of jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny, as demonstrators engaged in anti-Putin protests for a second straight week. A heavy police presence and the halting of public transportation in Russia’s largest cities hindered efforts to track protest turnout, but figures for both the number of people arrested and cities that saw detentions surpassed last weekend’s totals, according t...

Police detained more than 4,000 people and broke up rallies in Moscow and across Russia on Sunday as supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny took to the streets to protest his jailing, despite biting cold and the threat of arrest.

Police detained more than 4,000 people and broke up rallies in Moscow and across Russia on Sunday as supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny took to the streets to protest his jailing, despite biting cold and the threat of arrest. That figure included 1,167 people in the capital Moscow, it said. The nationwide rallies follow large protests last weekend that are part of a campaign to pressure the Kremlin into freeing President Vladimir Putin's most prominent opponent. The opposition politician was arrested on January 17 after returning to Moscow from Germany where he had been recovering fr...

Russian police detain more than 500 people at protests backing Kremlin critic Navalny

URL copied to clipboard “It’s just like Belarus!” exclaimed a girl in glasses as she came out of the metro station and saw the crowd. A huge buzzing stream of people was emerging from Chekhovskaya station - and from the opposite side of the street - and gathering on Pushkin Square in central Moscow. The roar of the masses mingled with car horns in a deafening cacophony. Six days ago, opposition politician Alexey Navalny was arrested at Sheremetyevo airport on his return to Russia, and - having released a new video about a secret palace owned by president Vladimir Putin on Russia’s...