President Vladimir Putin has led Russia's first major naval parade in years the day after violent police detentions of anti-government protesters in Moscow.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, centre, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, right, and Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Nikolai Yevmenov, left, arrive to attend the military parade during the Navy Day celebration in St.Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, July 28, 2019.
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin led Russia’s first major naval parade in years on Sunday, the day after a violent police crackdown on anti-government protesters in Moscow. Putin on Sunday morning went aboard one of the vessels in the Navy Day parade in St. Petersburg on the Gulf of Finland. The parade, the biggest in years, included 43 ships and submarines and 4,000 troops.
Putin was spending the weekend away from Moscow, the Russian capital, where nearly 1,400 people were detained Saturday in a violent police crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. A Russian group that monitors police arrests gave the figure Sunday, saying it was the largest number of detentions at a rally in the Russian capital this decade.
Police wielded batons and wrestled with protesters around the Moscow City Hall after thousands thronged nearby streets, rallying against a move by election authorities to bar opposition candidates from the Sept. 8 ballot for the Moscow city council.
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