Russian police arrest hundreds of protesters demanding that opposition candidates be allowed to run for Moscow city council
Protesters attempt to remove fences during a rally calling for opposition candidates to be registered for elections to Moscow City Duma, the capital's regional parliament, in Moscow, Russia July 27, 2019.
Russian police wrestled with demonstrators and arrested hundreds of people in central Moscow on Saturday at a protest demanding that opposition candidates be allowed to run for the Moscow city council. The dispute comes as the Kremlin is struggling with how to deal with strongly opposing views in its sprawling capital of 12.6 million people.OVD-Info, an organisation that monitors political arrests, said more than 500 people had been arrested an hour after the protest started, while the city police department said the number was 295, according to state news agency Tass.
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