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(5 May 2018) An organisation that monitors political repressions in Russia says more than 350 people have been arrested in a day of nationwide protests against the upcoming inauguration of Vladimir Putin for a new six-year term as president.
The OVD-Info group said the largest number of arrests as of Saturday mid-afternoon was in Chelyabinsk, where 97 were detained.
In Yakutsk in the far northeast, 75 were detained but all had been released, the organization said.
Thousands of people crowded into Moscow's Pushkin Square for an unauthorised demonstration and OVD-Info said more than 50 people were arrested.
Among them was protest organiser Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption campaigner who is Putin's most prominent foe.
The unauthorised protest was part of a day of nationwide demonstrations under the slogan "He is not our czar".
Police made arrests at demonstrations in some other cities, but there was no overall figure immediately available.

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