Anti-Putin protests lead to more than 2,000 arrests across Russia
Kremlin is worried by the scale of the demonstrations and is looking for ways to cool public discontent
31 January 2021 - 16:43
More than 2,000 people were arrested in Russian cities on Sunday as a government crackdown and travel curbs failed to stop supporters of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, from engaging in the second wave of national protests in a week.
Navalny, who defied threats of arrest to return from Germany in mid-January after a nerve-agent attack that he said was an attempt by Putin to kill him, has vowed to keep up the pressure on the authorities even from behind bars. A Russian court is preparing to hand him a possible three-and-a-half-year prison term...
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