Russian police have detained 150 people at meeting of opposition politicians in Moscow, accusing them of having links to an undesirable organisation .
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.
The forum, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, was a gathering of municipal deputies from all over the country, Andrei Pivovarov, the event s organiser and executive director of Open Russia, told radio station Echo Moskvy.
Open Russia is a British-based group founded by exiled former oil tycoon and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
В Москве не состоялся форум независимых депутатов Участников задержала полиция
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