'There is a plan to put any people with a different view under arrest, but such people already are the majority,' Andrei Pivovarvo said in a letter from police custody.
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Organizer Andrei Pivovarov adjusts his face mask reading"No to amendments, no to zeroing out" during a gathering of opposition supporters on Pushkinskaya Square to sign a petition to annul the results of July 1 national vote that approved reforms to the Russian constitution in downtown Moscow on July 15, 2020. Pivovarov was removed form a Poland-bound plane and placed in custody Monday for his involvement in Open Russia, a group deemed"undesirable" by Russian authorities.
Open Russia was financed by tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who moved to London after spending 10 years in prison in Russia on charges widely seen as political revenge for challenging PresidentIn March, police briefly detained about 200 participants of a forum of members of municipal councils that Open Russia helped organize.
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