Navalny Among Dozens Detained At Election Boycott Rallies In Russia

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Navalny Among Dozens Detained At Election Boycott Rallies In Russia
Tom Balmforth

MOSCOW -- Dozens of people, including opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, have been detained across Russia as they rallied in support of an election boycott.

The anticorruption crusader wrote on Twitter that he had been detained shortly after joining a rally of more than 1,000 people in central Moscow on January 28.

Navalny was dragged by police into a bus shortly after joining a rally of more than 1,000 people on Moscow's central thoroughfare on January 28, according to a live video feed from the scene.

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