Russian opposition leader arrested heading to Moscow protest
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was arrested Sunday, according to multiple reports.
Navalny — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic — was arrested when he was on his way to a protest in Moscow.
Navalny organized the protests as part of an effort to encourage Russians to boycott the country’s presidential election in March.
{mosads}Russia’s Central Election Commission last year voted to stop Navalny from running against Putin, citing a conviction in a fraud case that many consider to be political pushback.
According to The Associated Press, about 1,000 people gathered Sunday in central Moscow’s Pushkin Square for a demonstration.
They held signs that read: “They’ve stolen the election from us” and “Elections without Navalny are fake.”
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