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More than 5,600 demonstrators were arrested in anti-government protests that pose a major challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin. People attend a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Russia, on Sunday. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) (CN) For the second weekend in a row, Russia was jarred by large-scale protests sparked by the arrest of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and anger over government corruption. By Monday, OVD-Info, a Russian human rights group, reported 5,646 protesters had been detained across Russia during protests on Sunday in subzero temperatures. The previous weekend saw more than 4,000 detentions of protesters, OVD-Info said. The group called the wave of detentions unprecedented.

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