Russian police detain around 200 people, including leading opposition figures, at Moscow meeting


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  • Saturday, 13 Mar 2021

FILE PHOTO: Former Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky poses for a pictured after an interview with Reuters in central London, Britain, January 18, 2021. REUTERS / Henry Nicholls

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police detained around 200 people, including several prominent opposition figures, at a meeting of independent and opposition politicians in Moscow on Saturday, the interior ministry said.

The detentions come amid a crackdown on anti-Kremlin sentiment, following the arrest and imprisonment of opposition politician Alexei Navalny who returned to Russia in January after recovering from a nerve agent poisoning in Siberia.

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