Published on: Tuesday, February 02, 2021
By: AFP
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Navalny was detained shortly after returning from Germany where he was treated for poisoning with the Novichok nerve agent.
Moscow: Russian prosecutors on Monday backed a request to imprison opposition leader Alexei Navalny for several years on old charges, after police detained more than 5,000 people - a record number of anti-Kremlin protesters across the country.
On Sunday, demonstrators defied government warnings and rallied from the Pacific port of Vladivostok to the northwestern city of Pskov in a second weekend of mass protest over the arrest of President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent opponent.