Two weekends of nationwide protests in support of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny occurred in Moscow despite thousands of arrests, the Associated Press reported Monday. …
Two weekends of nationwide protests in support of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny occurred in Moscow despite thousands of arrests, the Associated Press reported Monday. Tens of thousands of people participated in protests against President Vladimir Putin and the detention of Navalny on Sunday, the AP reported. Over 5,400 people were detained for participating in the demonstrations. Navalny is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday, and he faces a possible prison sentence, the AP reported. His supporters asked protesters to show up at the Moscow courthouse to demonstrate on Tuesday. “Without your help, we won’t be able to resist the lawlessness of the authorities,” Navalny’s team said in a social media post, the AP reported. Russian state-run media outlets reported the demonstrations as small and as a failure of the opposition, the AP reported.
