JUDY WOODRUFF: Widespread protests broke out in cities across Russia’s 11 time zones yesterday to denounce government corruption.
Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner begins our coverage.
MARGARET WARNER: The sentence for Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was handed down this morning in Moscow: 15 days in jail for resisting police. He was also fined 20,000 rubles, about $350, for organizing yesterday’s mass protests against alleged government corruption.
ALEXEI NAVALNY, Russian Opposition Leader (through interpreter): I think yesterday’s events have shown there is a large number of voters in Russia who support a candidate who speaks for the fight against corruption. These people demand …read more
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