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A view from Vladivostok of the first of Saturday's protests that will take place across Russia.
Another video of the protest from Vladivostok. 2/
The authorities in Moscow appear to have begun fencing off Pushkinskaya Square where the Moscow portion of the protest is supposed to occur later today. 3/
The protest crowd in Ulan-Ude near Lake Baikal. 4/
A small crowd reportedly stuck around for around an hour in Yakutsk where the temperature is negative 50 Degrees Celsius. 5/
A look at the crowd in Khabarovsk where protests have been ongoing since August. 6/
OMON officers arresting protestors in Khabarovsk. 7/
The protest crowd in Irkutsk. 8/
The protests in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. 9/
Protestors being detained in Yakutsk in -50 Degree Celsius weather. 10/
Photo from the protest in Chita. 11/
Video of the protest in Chita. 12/
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The @MoscowTimes is running a live blog on the protests across Russia. 14/
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The police in Moscow are already arresting people near Pushkinskaya. 15/
According to Novaya Gazeta, the protests in Magadan and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky attracted ~150 and 200 people, respectively. The estimate for Vladivostok is between 1,000-3,000 people. 16/
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The scenes from Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, and Yakutsk. 17/
Protestors being arrested in Vladivostok. 18/
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Rosgvardia continues to reinforce its forces in Pushkinskaya before the protest in Moscow. 20/
Protestors running away from the police in Vladivostok. 21/
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Video from the protest in Kamchatka's Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. 22/
There have been a number of reports of journalists or Navalny supporters being arrested preemptively after leaving their homes. In this case, a journalist from Krasnoyarsk was arrested once he left his house. 23/
The crowd trying to fight off police in Vladivostok. 24/
In the Siberian city of Kemerovo the estimate of the crowd size from a local activist was around 500 people. 25/
Novaya Gazeta is reporting that at least one protestor who was arrested by the police was apparently knocked unconscious before being placed into the back of the police SUV. 26/
The protest march in Novosibirsk. 27/
The protestors in Tomsk where Navalny was poisoned back in August. 28/
Another video from Novosibirsk. 29/
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Video of OMON officers arresting protesters in Vladivostok. 30/
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Protestors marching in the Siberian city of Barnaul. 31/
OMON officers have blocked off the Krasny Prospekt metro station in Novosibirsk. 32/
Police chasing after protestors in Vladivostok. 33/
A look at Pushkinskaya square where the Moscow portion of today’s protest is supposed to occur. 34/
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The crowd in Irkutsk chants "Navalny!" 35/
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Moscow officials decided to repair the sidewalks in Pushkinskaya today before today's protest in the square. 37/
More photos of the already heavy police presence at Pushkinskaya before today's protest. 38/
Video of protestors in Omsk, the Siberian city where Navalny was initially hospitalized after his poisoning in August. 39/
Protestors being arrested in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. 40/
Novaya Gazeta is reporting that four thousand people came out to protest in Novosibirsk. 41/
An estimated 400 people are protesting in Omsk, and at least seven people have been detained. 42/
Video from Krasnoyarsk. 43/
Another video of the crowd in Tomsk. 44/
A scuffle between police and protestors in Khabarovsk. 45/
Protestors in Novokuznetsk chanting "Putin is a thief." 46/
The police have blocked off all but one exit at the Pushkinskaya metro station in Moscow where today's protest will occur. 47/
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Protestors being detained in Omsk. 51/
174 people have been arrested in the protests occurring primarily in Russia's Far East and Siberia so far. 52/
Video showing OMON riot shields and equipment in preparation for today's protests. 53/
"Russia will be free" chants in Novosibirsk. 54/
A scene occurring across Russia today. Police posted up outside the apartments and homes of Navalny supporters and journalists, and arrested them immediately once they left their homes. 55/
Another video of the protest march in Omsk. 56/
Police have begun blocking off the famous Tverskaya Street in Moscow that runs from Red Square through Pushkinskaya. 57/
The crowd in Irkutsk. 58/
Protests in Yekaterinburg. 59/
From Tyumen. 60/
And a view from Ufa. The protests are now starting in cities in the Urals. 61/
Video of the protest march in Yekaterinburg. 62/
From Krasnoyarsk. 63/
Protestors are starting to arrive in Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow, and the police are already arresting people. 64/
City coordinators for Navalny's team are being arrested across Russia. 65/
An estimated 500 people have come out to protest in Chelyabinsk. 66/
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Police have fenced off Red Square. 68/
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Protestors in Yakutsk where the temperature reached -53 Degrees Celsius. 69/
Huge police presence in St. Petersburg's Palace Square next to the Hermitage Museum. 70/
A possibly unconscious protestor detained in Novosibirsk. 71/
"Putin is a thief" chants in Ivanovo. 72/
From a 90-year old babushka in Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow, "I'm not afraid."
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More arrests in Pushkinskaya Square. 74/
Another video from Chelyabinsk. 75/
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Police near the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg. 77/
Video of the protestors in Barnaul. 78/
Arrests in Krasnoyarsk. 79/
More than 20 people have reportedly already been detained in Moscow. 80/
Another video of the protest march in Yekaterinburg. 81/
Yekaterinburg. 82/
Ufa. 83/
Rosgvardia servicemen blocking off all paths to the Palace Square in St. Petersburg. 84/
More arrests in Moscow. 85/
Arrests in Orenburg as the crowd chants "shame!" 86/
The crowd in Yekaterinburg shouting "change!" 87/
The number of arrests from the protests across Russia has now reached 237. 88/
Footage from Moscow. 89/
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"Putin is a thief" chant in Samara. 91/
OMON officers in Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow. Apparently, they are telling the protestors over a loud speaker to maintain social distancing and to wear masks. 92/
Another video from Samara. 93/
Ulyanovsk. 94/
Orsk. 95/
Footage from Khabarovsk earlier today. 96/
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Perm. 97/
And footage of arrests in Vladivostok and the crowd in Irkutsk from earlier today. 98/
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More arrests in Moscow. 99/
The crowd in Ufa is throwing snow at the police. 100/
More arrests in Pushkinskaya. The protest hasn't even yet begun in Moscow, but the number of people detained there already is likely nearly as high as any other city in Russia. 101/
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The police have started to detain people in St. Petersburg. 104/
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A police officer is handing out masks at the protest in Pushkinskaya. 105/
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The number of people detained across Russia has reached 369. 106/
A police officer detaining a kid. 107/
The protest crowd is getting larger in Moscow. 108/
Shameful behavior. 109/
From Izhevsk. 110/
Ilya Varlamov was detained. 111/
From Astrakhan. 112/
A big crowd in Perm. 113/
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More arrests at Pushkinskaya. 115/
Video of the protestors in Saratov. 116/
Pushkinskaya right now. 117/
A teenager being arrested while giving an interview. 118/
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Another photo of Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow. 122/
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The police are arresting protestors in Chelyabinsk as well. 123/
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Prominent opposition figure Lyubov Sobol has been detained. 124/
Video from Pushkinskaya. 125/
Protestors assembling in St. Petersburg. 126/
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OMON officers pushing back protestors onto the ice in Yekaterinburg. 128/
In Krasnoyarsk, protestors are approaching the mayor's office. 129/
Protestors in St. Petersburg. 130/
More photos from St. Petersburg. 131/
Video of people arriving at the Mayakovskaya metro stop before walking over to Pushkinskaya. The exits to the metro at Pushkinskaya were blocked off by police, so protestors went to the next metro stop. 131/
Krasnodar. 132/
Arkhangelsk. 133/
Belgorod. 134/
The protest march in Penza. Once again, the Navalny team's coordinator for the city was detained by the police. 135/
Murmansk. 136/
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Pushkinskaya is starting to look pretty packed. 138/
From Bryansk. 139/
The protest march in Nizhny Novgorod. 140/
From Yekaterinburg. 141/
Hmm, this guy looks familiar. 142/
The number of people arrested at protests across Russia has now reportedly reached 381. 143/
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The Ministry of Internal Affairs reportedly estimates that around 4 thousand people are taking part in the protest at Pushkinskaya right now. 145/
From Izhevsk. 146/
Tver. 147/
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Yulia Navalnaya is at the protest. 151/
Video from St. Petersburg. 152/
Tambov. 153/
The scene from Pushkinskaya Square in central Moscow. 154/
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Scuffles breaking out at Pushkinskaya. 156/
The protest in Smolensk reportedly has around 400 people. 157/
Navalny's mother is also at the protest at Pushkinskaya. 158/
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Znak has compiled media estimates of the protest size in the following cities:
-Moscow: 7k (so far)
-St. Petersburg: 5k (so far)
-Yekaterinburg: 5k
-Novosibirsk: 4k
-Vladivostok: 3k
-Krasnoyarsk: 3k
-Tyumen: 800
-Omsk: 2k
-Irkutsk: 2k
-Chelyabinsk: 2k
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The protests in Syktyvkar. 163/
Cheboksary. 164/
Voronezh. 165/
Protestors spilling over from Pushkinskaya. 166/
Yulia Navalnaya, Alexei Navalny's wife, has been detained at the protest in Pushkinskaya. 167/
From the protests in St. Petersburg. 168/
St. Petersburg. 169/
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Another video from St. Petersburg. 171/
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Another video from Nizhny Novgorod. 173/
Another group of protestors is marching towards the FSB headquarters in Lubyanka. 174/
Video of a group of protestors marching towards the FSB's Lubyanka headquarters chanting "Putin is a thief." 175/
Video of Yulia Navalnaya being detained. 176/
St. Petersburg. 177/
Kaliningrad. 178/
Lipetsk. 179/
Photos from Pushkinskaya. 180/
The protests in Novorossiysk on the Black Sea. 181/
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Video from Murmansk. 183/
It seems OMON reinforcements are being sent in to Pushkinskaya. 184/
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It appears smaller groups of protestors are now moving through different parts of central Moscow. 186/
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A look at Pushkinskaya earlier today. 188/
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The scenes in St. Petersburg. 191/
Police officers being pelted with snowballs in Krasnoyarsk. 192/
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OMON officers getting pushed back by the crowd. 193/
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Looks like the OMON officers in St. Petersburg are also struggling with the size of the crowd. 194/
A simply incredible photo of St. Petersburg. 195/
Photo of Pushkinskaya packed with protestors. 196/
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Protestors with a photo of Navalny next to the Pushkin Statue. 200/
The protest in Gelendzhik. 201/
Another video of the march in Lipetsk. 202/
Police officers forcefully arresting protestors. 203/
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I couldn't find the original source, but Reuters is apparently estimating that there are 40k people taking part in the protests in Moscow. 204/
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Remarkable to see Russian police and OMON officers appear to be overwhelmed at times in Moscow and St. Petersburg. 207/
Police in Krasnoyarsk getting pelted with snowballs as they detain a protestor. 208/
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Crazy scenes on Strastnoy Boulevard next to Pushkinskaya. 209/
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Protestors playing soccer with an OMON officer's helmet. 210/
More scuffles between OMON riot police and protestors at Pushkinskaya. 211/
Things seem to be escalating. 212/
It looks like someone threw a flare at the OMON officers. 213/
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I've seen a few photos of protestors with bloody head wounds so far. 215/
From St. Petersburg. 216/
Protestors have finally blocked off Tverskaya Street. 217/
Another video of protestors flooding the streets in central Moscow. 218/
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Another video of OMON officers striking protestors with clubs on Strastnoy Boulevard. 219/
OMON officers chasing down and arresting protestors. 220/
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Looks like Rosgvardia reinforcements have arrived and completely cover the street. 221/
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Statement from the US Embassy in Moscow. 222/
The number of people arrested in protests across Russia has reached 1,338. 223/
Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg. 224/
Large force of OMON officers in St. Petersburg. 225/
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The scenes in Kaliningrad. 226/
From about an hour ago in Moscow. 227/
More snowballs being thrown at OMON officers. 228/
Lots of snowballs being thrown today. 229/
People spilling into the street. 230/
A protestor being struck in the head by a OMON officer's baton. 231/
Video of more arrests. 232/
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More arrests by OMON officers in Moscow. 233/
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OMON officers chasing people in central Moscow. 234/
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Video of protestors fighting back against OMON officers to prevent an arrest. 235/
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Protestors continue to march in St. Petersburg. 237/
Protestors chanting “drink novichok” (i.e. the poison used on Navalny) presumably directed at the police/OMON officers. 238/
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Protestors just hammering the police with snowballs. 239/
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Still a large group of protestors marching in St. Petersburg. 240/
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The snowball fight continues. 241/
Young protestors continuing to face off with OMON riot police. 242/
A look at the protest march in Perm. 243/
Protestors in Rostov-on-Don from earlier today. 244/
Video from Nizhny Novgorod earlier today. 245/
OMON officers forcefully detaining protestors in central Moscow. 246/
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Protestors facing off with OMON officers earlier today. 248/
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More snowballs. 249/
Protestors hitting and throwing snowballs at a reported FSB sedan. 250/
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Another angle of that FSB sedan being attacked by protestors. 251/
A 3rd angle of that FSB sedan getting attacked. 252/
I think they’ve bracketed the police truck. 253/
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Anther video of that FSB sedan getting kicked and struck with snowballs. 254/
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Police and protestors continue to get into scuffles. 256/
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Police are arresting people in the Tsvetnoy Bulvar metro station. 257/
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Police and OMON officers continue to detain and clear central Moscow of protestors. 259/
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Another video of the fracas from earlier. 260/
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Almost two thousand people were arrested during protests today across Russian. 263/
Protestors who haven’t gone home continue to be arrested. 264/
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Another video of Moscow police officers getting pelted by snowballs. 267/
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Map of the protest locations today. 268/
Police are arresting protestors who marched to the jail where Navalny is being held. 269/
The total number of arrests today is now over two thousand, and it continues to climb. 270/
Protestors are still marching. 271/
Protestors chanting outside of the jail where Navlany is being held. 272/
Video from earlier today. 273/
Funny video of a protestor attempting to write something on the frost in a perekhod while a police officer erases other things written by protestors, including “change,” “freedom,” and some R-rated words. 274/
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Another video of the crowd of protestors outside of Navalny's jail calling for his release. 275/
Another video of police officers getting hit by snowballs thrown by the protestors. 276/
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Quite the scene outside of Navalny’s jail tonight. 277/
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Wow, a group of OMON officers was completely surrounded by protestors earlier today on Strastnoy Bulvar. 278/
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Group of police officers waiting outside of the FSB’s Lubyanka HQ. 279/
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Video of that group of OMON officers that was surrounded by protestors earlier today on Strastnoy Bulvar. 280/
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Photos of OMON riot police outside the Four Seasons Hotel Moscow near Red Square. 281/
Photos: Павел Бедняков
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Photos from Moscow today. 282/
Photos: Илья Питалев
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Protestors and OMON officers continue to clash near the jail that is holding Navalny. 283/
Deleted my previous tweet because the actual number of people arrested is ~2,500, not 3,500. 284/
Another video of a scuffle between OMON officers and protestors in Pushkinskaya today. Baza reports that at least 50 police/government officials were injured, though mostly light injuries. 285/
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Slow motion video of the fighting between protestors and OMON officers on Strastnoy Bulvar. 287/
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