Over 200 detained in Russian anti-corruption protests: NGO
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- Published Date: 12:00 | 12 June 2017
- Modified Date: 04:10 | 12 June 2017
Over 200 people were detained Monday by police at opposition protests called by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, said a Russian NGO tracking arrests.
"About 121 people were detained in Moscow up to this point. In Saint-Petersburg - 137," OVD-Info wrote on Twitter, following other reports of detentions in far-eastern Vladivostok and southern resort Sochi, and the detention of Navalny himself.
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