In Russia, around a hundred arrests during rallies in tribute to Alexeï Navalny. In Russia, any public criticism of power is punishable by prison.
Alexei Navalny, 47, was serving a 19-year prison sentence for “extremism” in a remote Arctic colony, in very difficult conditions. His disappearance after three years of detention and a poisoning for which he accused the Kremlin deprives an already bloodless opposition of its figurehead, one month before the presidential election.