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Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across the country on Saturday after Navaln called protests against the government of President Vladimir Putin and police clashed with protesters in Moscow.
Putin’s most charismatic critic was arrested a week ago at the Moscow airport when he arrived from Germany, where he was treated for several months with Novičiok, a nerve paralyzing substance after poisoning. The opposition said the attack on his life was organized by the Kremlin.
OVD Info reported Sunday that police had arrested at least 3,324 protesters in dozens of cities to monitor opposition rallies. According to the group, 1,320 people were arrested in Moscow and 490 in St. Petersburg.
The number of arrests during opposition rallies was the highest in the history of modern Russia.
During the demonstrations in the capital and St. Petersburg, several protesters were injured.
In a statement released Saturday night, the St. Petersburg prosecutor’s office said it was conducting an investigation into the violations, including violations by “law enforcement officials” and the use of force against an undisclosed woman.
The report came after local media released a video showing a middle-aged woman falling to the ground after a riot by a riot police officer.
In the video, a woman named Margarita Judina asks three police officers in full riot control gear why they are arresting an unarmed young protester. Then one of the policemen hits her in the abdomen.
A spokeswoman for the Hospital of the Janelidze Research Institute in St. Petersburg said Judina was hospitalized on Saturday night due to a head injury.
“He is in serious condition,” a hospital spokeswoman told AFP on Sunday. “She is being treated in the intensive care unit.”
A spokesman for the Moscow Health Department said on Sunday that no victims of the unauthorized protests that took place in hospitals in the capital on Saturday were released.
“On January 23, after unauthorized demonstrations, 29 people were transferred to the hospitals of the city’s hospitals. All patients received the necessary medical attention. No one needed more hospital treatment, ”the service said in a statement.
Meanwhile, sources reported by the Interfax news agency reported that 60 protesters needed medical help.
Saturday’s protests have reached unprecedented geographical proportions, with protesters taking to the streets in more than 100 cities across the country.
In preparation for the demonstrations, Navaln’s team published a report on YouTube analyzing an investigation into Putin’s luxury complex on the Black Sea coast and urging opposition supporters to take to the streets.
According to a report on Putin’s palace, the Russian president is 17,691 square meters, 39 times the size of the Principality of Monaco.
The nearly two-hour video has been viewed nearly 78 million times since Tuesday and has become the most-watched movie by Kremlin critics on YouTube.
The Kremlin has denied that the property belongs to Putin.
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