Thousands reported arrested at protests over Navalny jailing

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Source: RTE

Police detained more than 3,000 people across Russia and blocked off the centre of Moscow in a massive clampdown on protests demanding the release of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

Thousands of protesters defied government warnings to rally from Vladivostok to Saint Petersburg in a second weekend of mass demonstrations over the arrest of President Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic.
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Allies of Mr Navalny said police had detained his wife Yulia at a protest in Moscow.

OVD-Info, a monitoring group, said that more than 300 people had already been detained at the Moscow rally.



Read more: https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2021/0131/1194116-russia-navalny-protests/

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Earlier version of article read:

"In the far eastern city of Vladivostok, police prevented protesters from accessing the centre, forcing them to relocate to the waterfront and the frozen waters of the Amur Bay.



Video footage showed protesters chanting "Putin is a thief" as they linked hands and marched on the ice in temperatures of around -13 Celsius."
You know it's cold when you're protesting on sea ice.