Russia Detains Around 200 People, Including Leading Opposition Figures, at Moscow Meeting

Russia Detains Around 200 People, Including Leading Opposition Figures, at Moscow Meeting
Former Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky poses for a picture after an interview with Reuters in central London, Britain, Jan. 18, 2021. Henry Nicholls/Reuters
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MOSCOW—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.