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MOSCOW ? The Russian police arrested hundreds of people in nationwide anti-corruption protests on Sunday, including the opposition leader Aleksei Navalny in Moscow, where thousands gathered for the biggest demonstration in five years against President Vladimir V. Putin.
The protest in the capital took the form of a synchronized walk along a major shopping street to avoid a ban on unsanctioned stationary gatherings. It coincided with similar rallies in 99 cities across the country ? from Vladivostok in the far east to Kaliningrad in the west ? according to the organizer, Mr. Navalny?s anti-corruption foundation.
All but 17 of these, the foundation said, had been declared illegal by the authorities.
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Protesters Gather in 100 Cities Across Russia; Top Putin Critic Is Arrested
Police officers detaining the opposition figure Aleksei Navalny on Sunday during an anti-corruption protest in Moscow.
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By ANDREW HIGGINS
MARCH 26, 2017
MOSCOW ? The Russian police arrested hundreds of people in nationwide anti-corruption protests on Sunday, including the opposition leader Aleksei Navalny in Moscow, where thousands gathered for the biggest demonstration in five years against President Vladimir V. Putin.
The protest in the capital took the form of a synchronized walk along a major shopping street to avoid a ban on unsanctioned stationary gatherings. It coincided with similar rallies in 99 cities across the country ? from Vladivostok in the far east to Kaliningrad in the west ? according to the organizer, Mr. Navalny?s anti-corruption foundation.
All but 17 of these, the foundation said, had been declared illegal by the authorities.
In Moscow, some protesters tried to block security vans with cars, and the authorities deployed the riot police and surveillance helicopters. But they mostly avoided the brutal measures used in neighboring Belarus on Saturday against protesters in the capital, Minsk, and other cities.
The police in Belarus beat and arrested hundreds of people who tried to gather for the latest in demonstrations against President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994.
The protests in Russia on Sunday ? nominally against corruption but also a rare show of public defiance against Mr. Putin, who has found a fierce and enduring critic in Mr. Navalny ? were the largest coordinated display of public dissatisfaction since anti-Kremlin demonstrations in 2011 and 2012, after an election that was tainted by fraud.