Russia's opposition held a new protest march in central Moscow on Saturday, despite a ban by authorities, a week before controversial regional ...
MOSCOW: Russia's opposition held a new protest march in central Moscow on Saturday , despite a ban by authorities, a week before controversial regional elections in the capital.
The gathering was noticeably calmer than previous similar protests, when police blocked the crowd and made thousands of sometimes violent arrests. Opposition politicians had requested formal permission to hold the Saturday march but were turned down. Another probe has been launched against Navalny's anti-corruption foundation, which has produced numerous videos alleging massive graft among officials at City Hall run by Putin's ally, mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
"Election committees found that their lists had... people who had died long ago," he said last week.Yashin appealed this week at Russian Supreme Court to have his candidacy reinstated, but lost and was detained the next day, for the fifth time since July for violating rules on public gatherings.According to OVD Info, an independent monitor of arrests and other suspected persecution, police detained some 2,700 people at this summer's demonstrations.
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