The detention of municipal deputies follows protests earlier this year in Russia in support of prominent opposition figure Alexey Navalny, an anti-corruption investigator whose exposés have targeted President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle.
(Tribune News Service) — Russian police detained about 200 regional lawmakers at a forum in Moscow organized by opposition figure Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Open Russia organization. The police said in a statement that the detention was due to the event being held in violation of sanitary and epidemiological requirements and that a significant number of participants didn’t have personal protective equipment.
