For the second weekend in a row, protesters flooded the streets of Moscow to protest the exclusion of opposition parties from local elections.
Chanting slogans like"Putin is a thief" and"We love Russia. They love money," protesters marched through Moscow again Saturday as they have almost every Saturday this month.
By 10 p.m. local time, 1,007 people had been arrested, according to Russian watchdog organization OVD. Opponents of the new rule pointed out that the task was made more difficult by the fact that those who provided their information would be added to a national database of opposition supporters. The protest was called by opposition activist Aleksei A. Navalny, who ran for mayor in 2013 and president in 2018. Both campaigns were impeded by criminal charges brought against him by the government.
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