January 23rd, in photos Meduza looks back on the countrywide protests and mass arrests that rocked Russia last Saturday

On Saturday, January 23, tens of thousands of people in various cities across Russia came out in protest against the detention of opposition figure Alexey Navalny. These demonstrations (which took place without the permission of the authorities) are the largest protests the country has seen in recent years. They were also accompanied by an unprecedented number of arrests, with law enforcement officials detaining more than 3,700 people countrywide. Meduza looks back on the events of January 23, as captured by photojournalists across the country.

Moscow

St. Petersburg

Samara

Novosibirsk

Kemerovo

Omsk

Rostov-on-Don

Tomsk

Yakutsk

Yekaterinburg

Ivanovo

Sochi

Khabarovsk

Irkutsk

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

Kaliningrad

Vladivostok