The European court of human rights ruled that Russia violated Navalny's rights by holding him under house arrest in 2014. [81] Riot police in the city began breaking up the protest and detaining participants before it was scheduled to start. [165] After the dispersal of the protesters on Pionerskaya Square, protesters went along Zagorodny Prospekt towards Moskovsky Prospekt. Russian police have issued a strong warning against participating in protests planned for Sunday to call for the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin's most prominent foe. Sergey Ponomarev—The New York Times/Redux Alexei Navalny Has Wrong-Footed Putin From Inside a Jail Cell. [190], A number of actions against repression were held in Russia on Valentine's Day. [160] Protesters gathered near the Bryantsev Youth Theatre. Protests in Russia began on 23 January 2021 in support of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny after his arrest and the release of the film Putin's Palace, which revolves around the connection between President Vladimir Putin and a palace allegedly being built for him. The government’s mood apparently changed following the failed assassination attempt and a deeply embarrassing investigation by Bellingcat, which exposed the attack as the work of an FSB hit squad who had shadowed Navalny around Russia for years. [77] However, Facebook and YouTube have countered this claim. It was reported that Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov informed U.S. [48], On 6 February, the Russian government expelled three diplomats, each from Germany, Poland and Sweden for allegedly participating in the protests on 23 January, leading to protest from the United States and EU leaders. 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[2] According to MBKh Media, around 2,500 people attended the protest in Ufa, Bashkortostan, around 5,000 people attended the protest in Chelyabinsk, around 3,000 people attended the protest in Samara and around 3,000 people attended the protest in Arkhangelsk. On 30 January, the day before protests would begin again, a video of him was published where he announced his resignation and urged people not to go to the protests. Navalny was charged with violating a suspended sentence he received in 2014 while he was in Germany, a sentence that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in 2017 previously ruled as "arbitrary and unreasonable". 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He also addressed his earlier remarks on protests being suspended, saying: "My poorly worded phrase was interpreted by everyone that the protests are cancelled. [59] An investigation by Bellingcat and The Insider implicated agents from the Federal Security Service (FSB) in Navalny's poisoning. Boris Johnson described the ruling as “pure cowardice,” which failed to meet “the most basic standards of justice”. Protesters moved towards the central square before being dispersed. 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[46] Police then cordoned off Manezhnaya Square and Pushkinskaya Square. The woman was later reportedly taken to intensive care. VK blocked access to a number of pages on the protests, with the pages stating that it was blocked on the requirement of the General Prosecutor’s Office. There has also been a physical price to pay. Там (почти) никого не задерживали и не били", "Demonstrators call for Russian opposition leader's freedom", "Репортаж о протестах в городах Австралии и Новой Зеландии: за и против", A Palace for Putin: The Story of the Biggest Bribe, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2021_Russian_protests&oldid=1011001967, Wikipedia articles needing clarification from January 2021, Articles with unsourced statements from February 2021, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 8 March 2021, at 14:12. A Moscow court has sentenced Alexei Navalny to two years and eight months in a prison colony in a landmark decision for Vladimir Putin’s crackdown on the country’s leading opposition figure. [72] Several were jailed or fined on charges of disobeying police orders or organizing a public event without notifying the authorities, with Sobol being fined and released. Russian police standing guard near the Moscow city court on Tuesday. [145], Navalny's coordinator in Nizhny Novgorod, Roman Tregubov, was arrested on 28 January and the next day was sentenced to five days in jail. He started out as a Russian nationalist, but emerged as the main leader of Russia's democratic opposition during the wave of protests that led up to the 2012 presidential election, and has since been a thorn in the Kremlin’s side. [36][37][38] Also according to OVD-Info, at least 82 journalists were detained. [184], In St. Petersburg, the Gostiny Dvor and Nevsky Prospekt metro stations were closed. He also called on the Russian government to "release citizens detained during peaceful demonstrations". In 2020, he was again hospitalised after a suspected poisoning, and taken to Germany for treatment. In April 2017, he was attacked with green dye that nearly blinded him in one eye, and in July 2019 he was taken from jail to hospital with symptoms that one of his doctors said could indicate poisoning. Outside the courthouse, she stood next to Navalny’s two lawyers, Olga Mikhailova and Vladimir Kobzev. [184], According to OVD-Info, 1,463 people in total were detained, including over 1,180 in Moscow and 280 in St. | 31.01.2021 | Камера №1, Demonstrations and protests in Russia in 2021, Putin's Palace. [166] Protesters then moved to outside the building of the city's legislative assembly, where they clashed with police and were forcibly dispersed. Police officers detain a young demonstrator during a protest near the Matrosskaya Tishina prison where Alexei Navalny is being held, in Moscow, Russia, on Jan. 31, 2021. Riot police began breaking up the protest and clashes between police and protesters broke out, with officers hit with snowballs. [194] A similar human chain took place in St. Petersburg at Voskresenskaya Naberezhnaya. [102] In Yakutsk, where temperatures reached −50 °C, several hundred protesters gathered in the city's main square. [74] On 22 January, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow issued a statement warning against calls to the protests or participation in them.
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