5,000 and counting Photographs from the January 31 protests, where Russian law enforcement broke records for nationwide arrests
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On Sunday, January 31, protesters across Russia took to the streets for the second weekend in a row to oppose the detention of opposition figure Alexey Navalny. The police response, which was harsh on January 23, was even more severe than last time — as evidenced by numerous testimonies (and videos) of officers using tasers against demonstrators. In total, more than 5,000 people were arrested countrywide, shattering last weekend’s record for the most detentions Russia has ever seen in a single day. Here’s a look at the events of January 31, in photos.
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Nizhny Novgorod
Yekaterinburg
Krasnodar
Volgograd
Tomsk
Omsk
Kemerovo
Perm
Kazan
Novosibirsk
Yakutsk
Khabarovsk
Krasnoyarsk
Vladivostok
(1) Navalny’s detention
Alexey Navalny was arrested at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport on January 17, 2021. The next day, he was remanded in custody for 30 days during an extraordinary hearing inside a Khimki police station. Navalny was then sent to Moscow’s Matrosskaya Tishina prison. Russia’s prison authorities requested Navalny be detained for allegedly violating his probation in the Yves Rocher case while abroad. The authorities are now seeking to have Navalny’s probation sentence revoked and incarcerate him under a reinstated 3.5-year prison sentence. The case is set to go to court on Tuesday, February 2.