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Russian opposition supporters set for another protest Saturday

Russian political opposition supporters planned to again take to Moscow’s streets on Saturday to protest for free elections in spite of being prohibited from holding such a rally.

Several individual protests were planned as opposition supporters press for their candidates to be allowed on the ballot for upcoming city council elections.
A protest in central Moscow last Saturday, the fourth in as many weeks, gathered tens of thousands of people.
Beginning as a sanctioned rally, the protest evolved into a march towards the Kremlin.
More than 100 people were detained at that protest, according to the independent monitoring group OVD-Info.
Police have been accused of taking a heavy-handed approach to conducting the detentions, tackling protesters and dragging them into buses.
At the two previous unsanctioned rallies, a total of more than 1,600 people were detained, according to official data.

 

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