Russian’s most widely known opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, along with hundreds of his supporters, were detained Saturday as street demonstrations unfolded in Moscow and 90 other Russian cities to protest Vladimir Putin’s inauguration for a fourth presidential term.
Within minutes of Navalny’s arrival at a protest in central Moscow, he was arrested along with his ally, Nikolai Lyaskin.
Baton-wielding riot police — and even men dressed in traditional Cossack uniforms — repeatedly waded into the Moscow crowd of mostly younger Russians to make arrests.
The independent monitoring group OVD-Info estimated that 1,300 people had been detained nationwide by police, who dubbed the protests …read more
Source: Voice of America
