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UPDATE 12:30 More than 1,000 people were arrested
According to OVD-Info, the number of people arrested today in Russia has reached 1009. Among them is a 12-year-old boy, detained on his way to the store in the city of Tver.
UPDATE 11:00 Police began arresting protesters
The police have completely closed the center of Moscow and St. Petersburg. As a result, Navalny supporters exchanged meeting places for the participants.
In Moscow, instead of Lubyanka and Staraya Square, the protesters will gather at Krasnye Vorota and Sukharevskaya metro stations, and then march along Sakharov Boulevard. In St. Petersburg, instead of Nevsky Prospect, people gather in Pionerskaya Square, near the Youth Theater.
In Vladivostok, the police prevented protesters from entering the city center, forcing them to move to the beach. The videos showed protesters shouting “Putin is a thief” while walking on ice in temperatures of about -13 degrees Celsius.
In Tomsk, the Siberian city that Navalny visited before suddenly collapsing during an internal flight in August last year, protesters gathered outside a concert hall shouting “Free him!” and raised Russian flags.
OVD-Info said police have detained about 500 people so far, including more than 100 in Vladivostok.
UPDATE 9:45 The demonstrations begin in Siberia and the Russian Far East
Demonstrations are planned on this day in Moscow, where protesters gather in Lubyanka and Staraya Square, but also in St. Petersburg, on Nevsky Prospect. The protests were not allowed, so the police will intervene like last weekend.
According to the protest monitoring group OVD-Info, at 10:12 a.m., more than 260 people were arrested in demonstrations in Russia in support of Navalny.
In Chelyabinsk, security forces beat protesters with truncheons. Video: Ural. MBH media pic.twitter.com/8GyDAT7Uss
– MBH Media (@MBKhMedia) January 31, 2021
Procession in Novosibirsk!
Many people, thank you very much for coming! pic.twitter.com/r1zFdROafS
– Team Navalny (@teamnavalny) January 31, 2021
Russian authorities prepare for protests by Alexei Navalny supporters
Alexei Navalny was jailed upon his return to Russia after nearly being assassinated last year. He was arrested on January 17 for failing to serve a suspended sentence after arriving from Berlin, where he spent months recovering from the near-fatal attack.
Russian authorities say he had to report to the police regularly under a suspended sentence.
Navalny denounced his detention as illegal and said authorities knew he was being treated in Berlin for the Novichok poisoning that took place in Russia in August last year.
Mass demonstrations in support of Navalny are expected across Russia on Sunday, despite warnings from police about the demonstrations.
Several of Navalny’s family members have been detained since last week and others, including his brother and Pussy Riot activist Maria Alyokhina, have been arrested at their home.
The editor-in-chief of a Russian human rights website, Sergei Smirnov, was also arrested on Saturday.
Seven metro stations will be closed in Moscow on Sunday and foot traffic will be limited in the city center.
Protests are expected in other parts of the country, despite low temperatures reaching -52 degrees Celsius.
In the Russian city of Vladivostok in the Far East, Navalny’s team says there have been no demonstrations of the magnitude of last Saturday in more than a decade.
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