A woman holds a placard reading"Russia will be free"during a rally in Moscow on Saturday in support of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.Police detained over 1,000 people across Russia on Saturday and used force to break up rallies around the country as tens of thousands of protesters demanded the release of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, whose wife was among those detained.
In central Moscow, where Reuters reporters estimated at least 40,000 people had gathered in one of the biggest unauthorized rallies for years, police were seen roughly detaining people, bundling them into nearby vans.Some protesters chanted “Putin is a thief”, and “Disgrace” and “Freedom to Navalny!”
The OVD-Info protest monitor group said that at least 1,090 people, including 300 in Moscow and 162 in St Petersburg, had been detained across Russia, a number likely to rise.Navalny, a 44-year-old lawyer, is in a Moscow prison pending the outcome of four legal matters he describes as trumped up. He accuses President Vladimir Putin of ordering his attempted murder. Putin has dismissed that, alleging Navalny is part of a U.S.-backed dirty tricks campaign to discredit him.
There was no immediate comment from the Kremlin, which had previously called the protests illegal and the work of “provocateurs”.
Such a disgrace!
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Must be a different kind of protest when BLM and Antifa aren't there. No looting, cars set on fire, broken windows etc...
Where are the leftists mob protesting for that?
And media cheers.
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