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Video | Russians across the country are protesting for a second weekend despite a growing crackdown and threats of prosecution by the authorities.
Thousands detained as Russian police clamp down on Navalny protests Thibaut MARCHAND/AFP People rally in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow on January 31, 2021. (Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA / AFP) In moves not seen in years in Moscow, police locked down the centre of the capital on Sunday, with hundreds lining the streets, central Metro stations closed and the movements of pedestrians restricted. Police detained more than 4,000 people across Russia on Sunday at protests calling for the release of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, a monitor said. The number o...
More than 4,400 held as Russian police clamp down on anti-Putin protests Navalny was detained at a Moscow airport in mid-January after flying back to Russia from Germany where he was recovering from an August poisoning he blames on the Kremlin. Share Via Email | A+A A- Police detain a man during a rally in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow. (Photo| AFP) By AFP MOSCOW: Police detained more than 4,400 people across Russia and blocked off the centre of Moscow on Sunday in a massive clampdown on protests demanding the release of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei ...
3-MIN READ Over 3,000 Detained as Russia Rallies for Release of Jailed Kremlin Critic Alexei Navalny Law enforcement officers detain a man during a rally in support of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Vladivostok, Russia January 31, 2021. REUTERS/Yuri Maltsev Thousands of protesters defied government warnings to rally from Vladivostok to Saint Petersburg in a second weekend of mass demonstrations over the arrest of President Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic. FOLLOW US ON: Police detained more than 3,000 people across Russia and blocked off the centre of Moscow Sunday i...
More than 4,800 held as Russian police clamp down on protests