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‘Putin is a thief’: Hundreds arrested across Russia during mass anti-corruption protests

By Zach Halaschak
Published January 23, 2021 4:32pm ET
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‘Putin is a thief’: Hundreds arrested across Russia during mass anti-corruption protests
People clash with police during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. Russian police on Saturday arrested hundreds of protesters who took to the streets in temperatures as low as minus-50 C (minus-58 F) to demand the release of Alexei Navalny, the country's top opposition figure. A Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent foe, was arrested on Jan. 17 when he returned to Moscow from Germany, where he had spent five months recovering from a severe nerve-agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin. | (Dmitri Lovetsky/AP)

Hundreds of activists have been arrested after they took to the streets of Russia to protest the detention of anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny.

Among 1,300 people who were allegedly arrested in various cities on Saturday was Navalny’s wife, Yulia Navalnaya, who was detained near one of the protests in Moscow, according to CNN.

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