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Russian police detained almost 700 people, including opposition leaders, at Moscow protests against the authorities’ decision to ban anti-Kremlin candidates from running for the city council next month, according to independent legal-aid group OVD-Info.
The number of protesters being held reached 685 as of 6:40 pm local time, the group estimated on its website. The Moscow police unit on its website said that about 1,500 people participated in the “unsanctioned events†as of 5:56 pm, with around 600 detained.
Lyubov Sobol, who works for the Anti-Corruption Fund run by opposition politician Alexey Navalny, was taken to a police station as she was getting into a taxi to the rally, as broadcast live by the onliP Russian politician Konstantin Jankauskas was detained immediately after leaving a police detention centre, where he spent the previous week after participating in an earlier
rally, according to a video posted on the Twitter account of Olga Chesare, Sobol’s colleague.