PICS/VIDEO: Protests for Alexei Navalny: 'More than 2,000 detained' in protests across Russia"

[Budi]

From: BBC NEWS

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-55778334
Alexei Navalny: 'More than 2,000 detained' in protests across Russia
23 January 2021 Europe

*Tens of thousands of people defied a heavy police presence to join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in recent years.

*In Moscow, riot police were seen beating and dragging away protesters.

*Mr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after his arrest last Sunday.




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"OVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said about 2,500 people had been detained, more than 900 of them in Moscow alone. The Kremlin has not commented.

Protester: 'I'm tired of being afraid'
The unauthorised demonstrations were held from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg. Protesters ranged from teenage students to elderly people who demanded Mr Navalny's release.

At least 40,000 people joined a rally in central Moscow, Reuters news agency estimated. Observers say this was the largest protest in the capital since the demonstrations of 2019. But Russia's interior ministry put the number of protesters at 4,000."
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Mr Navalny's wife, Yulia, was briefly held at the rally. She posted an image on her Instagram account with the caption: "Apologies for the poor quality. Very bad light in the police van."
https://www.instagram.com/p/CKYye2qFQ5v/




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[58Sunliner]

1. Brave people. The Russian fascists can be brutal and don't forgive.

[Budi]

2. Election 2020, long hard fight to where we stand today. Biden, House, Senate.

We weren't far from the same growing fascist regime the RU people are fighting against.

Same desire for a free & fair Democracy, yet a world apart