28 June 2017

What is this, Soviet Russia?!?...Oh, wait...

Vladimir Putin's most vocal critic, opposition leader Alexei Navalny, has been arrested after he urged his supporters to join him at anti-corruption protests across Russia on Monday (12 June), a national holiday.  Navalny, who hopes to unseat Putin in next year's elections, was detained at home ahead of the demonstrations, his wife said on Twitter.  "Alexei has been arrested in the entrance to our block of flats," Yuliya Navalny wrote, adding "our plans haven't changed."  She also shared a photo of several police cars waiting outside their apartment.  IBT

The United States, the European Union, and human rights groups have condemned the detention of hundreds of peaceful protesters across Russia.  An estimated 1,560 supporters of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny were detained during the June 12 anticorruption demonstrations in cities and towns nationwide, including 866 detained in Moscow and 548 detained in St. Petersburg.  Radio Free Europe

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