{"id":23946,"date":"2021-01-31T19:19:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T02:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=23946"},"modified":"2021-01-31T19:19:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T02:19:27","slug":"crowds-of-police-cant-quell-russias-pro-navalny-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/crowds-of-police-cant-quell-russias-pro-navalny-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowds of Police Can\u2019t Quell Russia\u2019s Pro-Navalny Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Photographs by\u00a0Sergey Ponomarev<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Photos: Crowds of Police Couldn\u2019t Quell Russia\u2019s Pro-Navalny Protests<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tens of thousands of people turned out across Russia on Sunday for a second consecutive weekend rally in support of a jailed opposition leader, Aleksei A. Navalny. But where the protesters went, so did the police, meeting them in sometimes brutal clashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The protests started in Russia\u2019s far east and swept across the vast nation, though crowds in some cities appeared to be smaller than last weekend. Demonstrators numbering in the thousands turned out in St. Petersburg, the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk in Siberia, Moscow and elsewhere. More than 4,000 people were detained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even before Russians gathered, the Kremlin made it clear that police officers would be out in great numbers. Officers mostly responded with arrests. But by early Sunday afternoon, reports of police brutality against protesters had surfaced in several cities \u2014 including the possible use of electric shock devices on demonstrators and the beatings of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Moscow, more than 1,200 protesters were detained, the OVD-Info activist group reported. The police shut down subway stations and paralyzed much of the city center as they scrambled to prevent protesters from gathering in one place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The show of force \u2014 and Kremlin anxiety \u2014 in Moscow was unlike any seen in recent years. \u201cAll for one and one for all!\u201d a column of protesters, which numbered in the thousands, chanted as they marched through the city toward the jail where Mr. Navalny was being held.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Protesters scattered across the northern part of Moscow\u2019s city center played an hourslong game of cat and mouse with riot police officers in body armor and camouflage. Using Twitter and Telegram, Mr. Navalny\u2019s supporters directed protesters farther north toward the city\u2019s main train hub, sending columns of police trucks speeding in that direction.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mr. Navalny\u2019s arrest has given a new focus to opposition to President Vladimir V. Putin, which had remained disparate even as his popularity fell.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Protesters, young and old, came out in the capital. Among them was Lyudmila Mikhailovna, an 83-year-old retired pediatric doctor who declined to give her last name. She said she was no great fan of Mr. Navalny. But she had watched his video about a palace on the Black Sea he said was built for Mr. Putin and decided to join the protest because \u201cI am for honesty, nothing else.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mr. Navalny\u2019s return to Russia on Jan. 17 shifted the political landscape facing the Kremlin \u2014 both at home and abroad. Inside the country, Russians unhappy with their president suddenly have a clear leader around whom to rally.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The appeal of Mr. Navalny\u2019s case for those who do not share his political views is that he is perceived as a symbol of the main source of the anger that many Russians feel toward the Kremlin: injustice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The authorities had made it clear that a strong police response was coming. In recent days, Mr. Navalny\u2019s brother, Oleg Navalny, and Maria Alyokhina, of the punk band Pussy Riot, were placed under house arrest. Mr. Navalny\u2019s wife, Yulia Navalnaya, was among those detained on Sunday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mr. Navalny\u2019s allies were not deterred by the police presence on Sunday and called for more protests on Tuesday, when Mr. Navalny faces a court hearing over alleged parole violations related to a six-year-old embezzlement case that could send him to prison for several years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Photographs by\u00a0Sergey Ponomarev Russia (1-31-21) — Tens of thousands of people turned out across Russia on Sunday for a second consecutive weekend rally in support of a jailed opposition leader, Aleksei A. Navalny. But where the protesters went, so did … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23958,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23946\/revisions\/23958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}