Thread by @JanekLasocki

Big day for protests across #Russia today - calling for the release of opposition leader Alexey #Navalny

This is the crowd in Irkutsk.
"We're not leaving!"

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#митинг23января

"Putin - thief!"

People marching in Abakan, Khakassia (not too far from the Mongolian border)

#Navalny #митинг23января

In Omsk, one protestor even came carrying a pair of underpants (Navalny was reportedly poisoned through his underwear)

Police clashing with protestors in Vladivostok in #Russia's far East.

#митинг23января #Navalny

"Svobodu!" (Freedom)
chant the protestors in support of #Navalny in Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo Oblast in Siberia

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A large column of protestors in Omsk now, where it's currently -30 degrees

#Navalny #митинг23января

219 people detained so far (just after midday Moscow time) for taking part in today's protests across #Russia
#митинг23января

The crowds of protestors in Novosibirsk, largest city in Siberia and third largest in all of #Russia

https://twitter.com/lampimampi/status/1352879227981410311?s=19

These are the protestors in Barnaul, Altai
Calling for the release of Alexey #Navalny

#митинг23января

"Putin thief!"
Protestors in the city of Perm in the Urals

Protestors making themselves heard in the city of Ufa (Bashkortostan)

Police dragging away peaceful protestors by the legs in Krasnoyarsk
At least 237 people have been detained so far today

#митинг23января #Navalny

More clashes with protestors
This is Orenburg, south west #Russia

The protest has yet to start in Moscow- but the arrests have already begun

#митинг23января

https://twitter.com/MBKhMedia/status/1352916142965350400?s=09

This is Ekaterinburg.
"Перемен!" (We want change!)

#RussiaProtests

https://twitter.com/teamnavalny/status/1352918668167020544?s=09

"Shame shame!" protestors chant in Ufa, also throwing snow balls at the police

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These are the crowds in Izhevsk (Udmurt Republic)

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https://twitter.com/teamnavalny/status/1352930955485437952?s=19

"Putin resign!"

People on the streets of Samara, south west #Russia

#RussiaProtests #митинг23января

At least 369 people detained so far (at 13.30 Moscow time) across #Russia for taking part in or observing peaceful protests

This was in Chelyabinsk

Footage of police dispersing a protest in Yakutsk, Eastern Siberia, earlier today
It's -53 degrees over there

#RussiaProtests

"Putin leave!"
Protestors in the city of Belgorod, near the Ukrainian border

#RussiaProtests #митинг23января

The people of Nizhny Novgorod making themselves heard today

#RussiaProtests #митинг23января

Protestors also out in Voronezh, south Western Russia, today

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https://twitter.com/teamnavalny/status/1352945435086901249?s=19

These are protestors in Gelendzhik, the small town in Southern Russia which is the location of Putin's Palace: the topic of #Navalny's latest video (which has been watched over 50 million times this week)

#RussiaProtests #митинг23января

At least 863 people arrested so far (15.20 Moscow time) across #Russia today for taking part in (or observing) peaceful protests

#RussiaProtests #митинг23января

In Moscow among the many who have been detained is Alexey @navalny's Yulia
(Her selfie from the police van)

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Police charging protestors on Pushkin Square in Moscow where several thousand have gathered

#RussiaProtests #митинг23января

Protestors in the city of Murmansk in the Arctic Circle

#RussiaProtests #митинг23января

https://twitter.com/teamnavalny/status/1352962871404208128?s=19

At least 1090 people have been arrested so far (at 16.00 Moscow time) across #Russia for taking part in (or observing) peaceful protests

This is footage from the city of Ryazan

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Arrests in Makhachkala, Dagestan in the North Caucasus, where protests were reportedly not expected

#RussiaProtests #митинг23января

Time-lapse of protestors marching in the Southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don

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.@Reuters estimates that 40 thousand people have come out onto the streets of Moscow today following the imprisonment of Alexey #Navalny

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Impressive pictures from St Petersburg, protestors taking over Nevsky Prospekt

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At least 1873 people across #Russia from far East to West have been detained so far today (18.30 Moscow time) for taking part in (or observing) peaceful protests

#RussiaProtests #митинг23января

Well over 2000 people arrested across all of #Russia today so far (19.30 Moscow time) for taking part in (or observing) peaceful protests.

@OvdInfo who document political repression in the country, have never counted so many in one day.

#RussiaProtests #митинг23января

As night falls protests are dying down in #Russia - but the arrests continue.
This is outside the detention centre where Alexey #Navalny is being held in Moscow

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https://twitter.com/mediazzzona/status/1353021586333380611?s=19

Excellent video highlights of the protests in the Russian regions today by @7x7journal
Including Ryazan, Kirov, Syktyvkar, Ulyanovsk, Penza & others

#RussiaProtests #митинг23января

Over 3100 people were arrested across #Russia today for taking part in (or observing) peaceful protests

#RussiaProtests #митинг23января #Navalny