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#BREAKING Moscow police start detaining Navalny supporters at rally: AFP

#UPDATE Russian police detained dozens of protesters on Saturday as thousands of supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny took to the streets following his call to protest against President Vladimir Putin's rule
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#VIDEO Alexei Navalny, Putin's most charismatic critic, put out the mass rally call after surviving a near-fatal poisoning with a Novichok nerve agent and returning to Moscow last weekend following months of treatment in Germany
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#BREAKING Several thousand pro-Navalny supporters protest in Moscow: AFP

#BREAKING Yulia Navalnaya, wife of Navalny, detained at Moscow rally: social media

#BREAKING Russia accuses US diplomats of publishing Navalny rally routes

#UPDATES Demonstrations in support of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny were held in the Baltic states of Lithuania and Estonia on Saturday, as police detained protesters at demonstrations across Russia
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#UPDATES Russia on Saturday accused the US embassy in Moscow of publishing routes of planned demonstrations in support of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and demanded an explanation from American diplomats
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#BREAKING More than 2,000 arrested at pro-Navalny protests across Russia: monitor

#BREAKING Police detain protesters outside Moscow jail holding Navalny: AFP

#BREAKING #EU foreign policy chief deplores 'widespread detentions' in #RussiaProtests

#UPDATE Tens of thousands across Russia marched in protest after opposition leader Alexei #Navalny was detained at a Moscow airport on arrival from Germany, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal poisoning #RussiaProtests

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