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Saturday, January 23, 2021
From the Liveblog of
Saturday, January 23, 2021
Number arrested at pro-Navalny rallies in Russia passes 2,000
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Protesters clash with riot police during a rally in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in downtown Moscow on January 23, 2021. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP)
MOSCOW — More than 2,000 protesters were arrested at demonstrations held throughout Russia today, a monitoring group says, after jailed Kremlin-critic Alexei Navalny called for the mass anti-government rallies.
The OVD-Info monitor reports that police seized at least 2,131 demonstrators at the protests held in dozens of cities, with 795 arrests carried out in the capital Moscow.
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