MOSCOW — Thousands of Russians protested against corruption on Monday, part of opposition leader Alexei Navalny's long-shot drive to unseat President Vladimir Putin at the ballot box next year.
Navalny is aiming to repeat the nationwide protests that rattled the Kremlin three months ago. However, he was arrested while on his way to a rally in Moscow, according to his wife.
The scale and geographical reach of the protests will show if Navalny can build on the success of demonstrations in March calling for Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, a close Putin ally, to quit.
Those protests were the largest since a wave of anti-Kremlin rallies in 2012 and resulted in more than 1,000 arrests, putting rare domestic pressure on Putin. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/alexei-navalny-organizes-anti-corruption-protests-russia-day-n770886?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_maWell that simplifies things.
