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BBC: ‘More than 3,000 detained’ in protests across Russia

By BBC.

Published Jan. 24, 2021. Updated Jan. 24 at 3:49 am

Police detain a man during a rally in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in downtown Moscow on January 23, 2021. - Navalny, 44, was detained last Sunday upon returning to Moscow after five months in Germany recovering from a near-fatal poisoning with a nerve agent and later jailed for 30 days while awaiting trial for violating a suspended sentence he was handed in 2014. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

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Russian police have detained more than 3,000 people in a crackdown on protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, monitors say. Tens of thousands of people defied a heavy police presence to join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.