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Police in Russia today detained around 200 activists gathering in central Moscow for an unauthorised protest against President Vladimir Putin. State news agency and a monitoring group reported that Radical opposition activist Vyacheslav Maltsev had appealed on his website for his supporters to hold protests across Russia today, calling for a people’s Revolution and for an immediate end to Putin’s rule.
OVD-Info, which monitors detentions at political protests, said that 212 people were held in Moscow, as well as 25 people in five other cities.
The protest today came after police in Moscow yesterday detained dozens of people at a nationalist anti-Kremlin march on a public holiday known as the Day of National Unity.