Russia Navalny protests: Kremlin hits out at West as it downplays rallies

Russia has accused Western countries of encouraging rallies in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Tens of thousands defied a heavy police presence to join the rallies on Saturday. More than 3,500 were detained, monitors say.

But President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman the next day claimed only “a few” people had turned out.

European Union foreign ministers meet on Monday to discuss their response, with calls for increased sanctions.

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The foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are demanding “restrictive measures against Russian officials responsible for arrests”.

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda also urged the EU to step up sanctions on Russia following the arrest of Mr Navalny.

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Demonstrations were held on Saturday in about 100 cities and towns from Russia’s Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg.

In Moscow, riot police were seen beating and dragging away demonstrators.

Observers say the scale of the demonstrations across the country was unprecedented, while the protest in the capital was the largest in almost a decade.

They appeared to enjoy widespread passive support, with trolley bus passengers waving to the crowds and large numbers of car drivers beeping their horns.

As pressure mounted on Sunday, Mr Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov criticised a message from the US embassy in Moscow warning people to avoid the demonstrations, branding the warning an “interference in our domestic affairs”.

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The embassy said such warnings were a “common and routine practice”, according to Reuters. The new Biden administration had previously called on the Russian authorities to release those detained, and condemned what it called “harsh tactics” used by the police against them.

Meanwhile, the Russian embassy in the UK also accused Western nations of using their embassies to encourage the protests.

Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said criticism from Western nations was the result of “a very deep crisis of that very Western way of thinking, of Western pseudo-democracy and pseudo-liberalism”.

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French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian described the arrests of protesters as a “slide towards authoritarianism” and called for further sanctions against Russia.

Mr Navalny was detained after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.

On his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.

Russian police have detained more than 3,000 people in a crackdown on protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, monitors say.

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Tens of thousands of people defied a heavy police presence to join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.

In Moscow, riot police were seen beating and dragging away protesters.

Mr Navalny, President Putin’s most high-profile critic, called for protests after his arrest last Sunday.

He was detained after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.

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On his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.

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OVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said about 3,100 people had been detained, more than 1,200 of them in Moscow alone. The Kremlin has not commented.

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The unauthorised demonstrations were held in about 100 cities and towns from Russia’s Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg. Protesters ranged from teenage students to elderly people who demanded Mr Navalny’s release.

At least 40,000 people joined a rally in central Moscow, Reuters news agency estimated. But Russia’s interior ministry put the number of protesters at 4,000.

Observers say the scale of the demonstrations across the country was unprecedented while the protest in the capital was the largest in almost a decade.

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In the city’s Pushkin square, some protesters chanted “Freedom to Navalny” and “Putin go away!” One woman told the BBC she had decided to join the demonstration because “Russia has been turned into a prison camp”.

Sergei Radchenko, a 53-year-old protester in Moscow, told Reuters: “I’m tired of being afraid. I haven’t just turned up for myself and Navalny, but for my son because there is no future in this country.”

Lyubov Sobol, a prominent aide of Mr Navalny who had already been fined for urging Russians to join the protests, tweeted a video of police roughly pulling her away from an interview with reporters.

Mr Navalny’s wife, Yulia, was briefly held at the rally. She posted an image on her Instagram account with the caption: “Apologies for the poor quality. Very bad light in the police van.”

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Some protesters marched on the high-security prison where Mr Navalny is being held, and many were arrested.

Meanwhile, one independent news source, Sota, said at least 3,000 people had joined a demonstration in the city of Vladivostok, but local authorities there put the figure at 500.

AFP footage showed riot police running into a crowd, and beating some of the protesters with batons.

In the Siberian city of Yakutsk, attendees at a small protest saw temperatures dip as low as -50C (-58F).

Prior to the rallies, Russian authorities had promised a tough crackdown. Several of Mr Navalny’s close aides, including his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, were arrested earlier in the week.

His supporters called for more protests next weekend.

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