Anton Novgorodov via twitter.com/Tabachenko
In Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok, local police detained some 30 protesters at a rally against corruption held March 26, another five people were detained at a rally in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, and six – in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, according to Meduza.
The rallies were sparked by the recent report by Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation revealing posh real estate and yachts at disposal of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Meduza reports.
Several dozen Russian cities were to host a wave of protests this Sunday. In many cities, local authorities had not greenlight the rallies under various pretexts.
Read alsoLukashenko reports arrests of militants preparing armed provocation in Belarus According to the media, nearly a thousand people took to the streets in Vladivostok. Police cracked down on protesters right after the rally started, snatching the "most active" men and women from the crowd into police vans. Amid mass detentions, protests partially shifted to the street outside the police station, where the detainees had been taken.