Opposition leader Alexei Navalny detained amid protests across Russia

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Source: The Guardian



Crowds gather in major cities to protest against corruption in largest anti-government demonstrations for five years, with over a hundred detained




Alexei Navalny is arrested at a rally in Moscow on Sunday. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters





Crowds gather in major cities to protest against corruption in largest anti-government demonstrations for five years, with over a hundred detained

Last modified on Sunday 26 March 2017 10.53 EDT

Police detained over a hundred people in Moscow and dozens in other Russian cities, as some of the biggest protests against the Kremlin in several years were held across the country on Sunday.

Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption campaigner who had called for the protests, was detained in central Moscow.

He was bundled into a police bus, which was unable to drive away for several minutes as crowds set upon it and tried to free him. There were also isolated incidents of protesters clashing with riot police and shouting “Shame!” and “Russia will be free!”

The protests gathered crowds of hundreds or thousands in most big Russian cities, from the far east port of Vladivostok to the European heartland. Police in Moscow estimated that around 7,000 people attended though the real number may have been much higher. The crowds surged down the length of the capital’s main thoroughfare, Tverskaya. Around 500 people were reported to have been detained by police in Moscow alone.........................

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/26/opposition-leader-alexei-navalny-arrested-amid-protests-across-russia

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Seems Putin has his own problems at home.

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Justin Hendrix Retweeted Арсений Веснин

The crowed chants for Boris Nemtsov, the assassinated Russian statesman and politician opposed to the government of Vladimir Putin.

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Protesters in Moscow. Photograph: Alexander Utkin/AFP/Getty Images

[riversedge]

1. More video from the clashes around the bus with arrested protest leader @navalny inside from an hour

Shaun Walker‏Verified account @shaunwalker7

More video from the clashes around the bus with arrested protest leader @navalny inside from an hour or so ago.

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[riversedge]

4. St Petersburg rally moves to Winter Palace. Days after the 100-year anniversary of February revolut

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Leonid Ragozin‏ @leonidragozin 3h3 hours ago

Leonid Ragozin Retweeted Tatiana Marshanova

St Petersburg rally moves to Winter Palace. Days after the 100-year anniversary of February revolution.

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[riversedge]

6. Photo from the St Petersburg protest today.

Whow--LOTS of people out protesting


Shaun Walker‏Verified account @shaunwalker7 2h2 hours ago

Shaun Walker Retweeted Арсений Веснин

Photo from the St Petersburg protest today.

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[Bluepinky]

11. Putin has a Winter Palace

And Trump has a Winter White House in Florida (name later changed to Southern White House). We may see him shirtless sitting astride a horse before too long.

[pandr32]

20. The Romanovs lived and died there in the Revolution

It is a museum now, I believe.
The protesting close to the site a hundred years later is of tremendous symbolic significance.

I doubt Mar-A-Lago will have any lasting importance.

[C_U_L8R]

2. How about some blowback, Putin?

Your big mistake is thinking that your eventual
fate won't be just like every other despot.

[cilla4progress]

3. I fear for Navalny's

Survival.

Freedom and truth lovers of the world can prevail if we unite.

[ananda]

9. Me too.

This is so sad.

[riversedge]

5. Riot police in Belarus attack protesters calling for end to dictatorship

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Maeve Shearlaw‏ @MaeveShearlaw 2h2 hours ago

Riot police in Belarus attack protesters calling for end to ‘dictatorship’

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[riversedge]

7. A bigger and angrier crowd than expected in Moscow today. Q will now be do authorities try to ignore

Shaun Walker‏Verified account @shaunwalker7 4h4 hours ago

A bigger and angrier crowd than expected in Moscow today. Q will now be do authorities try to ignore, or go for Bolotnaya-style crackdown.

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[Hortensis]

8. Excellent. Widespread protests in the historically

intensely authoritarian culture Russia's has always been. Best wishes to those brave people.

[still_one]

10. and the guy in the WH wants to be just like the guy they are protesting

[AnotherMother4Peace]

13. Trump has only praise for Putin..... nt

[still_one]

19. yup

[SunSeeker]

12. Meanwhile, the supposed leader of the free world is silent to Putin's atrocities. nt

[MBS]

15. " " " n/t

[not fooled]

26. He's probably envious

We all know that dump would love to just round up and imprison dissenters.

[SunSeeker]

27. Yep, and throw journalists in there with them. nt

[NewRedDawn]

14. I hope the good people

in Russia String up this little Criminal thug like Mussolini

[Squinch]

16. Good God, that guy has more courage than I could muster up in ten lifetimes.

[moonscape]

21. No kidding. n/t

[EarthFirst]

17. I wouldn't expect this to be condemned officially by the US government... nt

[riversedge]

23. It will be met with silence from the WH

[zentrum]

18. Trump-Bannon wish

...they could handle all protesters in America this way.

[riversedge]

22. ABC: Hundreds of protesters arrested in Russia as thousands gather for massive anti-corruption demon

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Hundreds of protesters arrested in Russia as thousands gather for massive anti-corruption demonstrations. http://abcn.ws/2nXNIN5

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[Igel]

24. How convenient for Putin.

All those he'd like to know about and repress all gathered in one place. Cell phones, Vkontakte info, images in video. FSB'll be busy this week--"Hey, Serezh, did we know about this guy?" "Yeah, we've been on his case for years. Check out this girl, she's new!"

[ck4829]

25. Stay strong