Moscow police use force to end election protest, arrest 600

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MOSCOW (AP) — Police cracked down hard on an unsanctioned demonstration in Moscow for a second weekend in a row, detaining about 600 people protesting the exclusion of some independent and opposition candidates from September city council elections.

The issue taps growing dissatisfaction with a political environment dominated by the Kremlin-aligned United Russia party, in which dissenting voices are marginalized, ignored or repressed.

An arrest-monitoring group, OVD-Info, said 685 people were detained Saturday. The Russian Interior Ministry said the number was about 600.

The detentions came a week after authorities arrested nearly 1,400 people at a similar protest.

Lyubov Sobol, one of the excluded candidates and a driving figure of the current wave of protests, was among those detained. She was grabbed by police in central Moscow and hustled into a police van, loudly demanding to know why she was being held.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/moscow-police-use-force-to-end-election-protest-arrest-600/ar-AAFhCVn?li=BBnb7Kz

[donkeypoofed]

1. Putie must be a little nervous! He didn't like this last time it happened either!

He was terrified enough of the last round of protests that almost took him down, that he started a vendetta against Hillary for speaking up for fair elections at the time. He hates her for it.