Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and around 1,600 anti-Kremlin activists were detained by police on Saturday during street protests against Vladimir Putin ahead of his inauguration for a fourth term as president. Before his detention, he briefly addressed supporters in central Moscow, leading them in chants of 'Down with the Tsar!". "Apparently the order came down not to 'jail me before the (Putin) inauguration,'" wrote Navalny. Putin has dismissed Navalny as a troublemaker bent on sowing chaos on behalf of Washington. Critics like Navalny accuse Putin of overseeing a corrupt authoritarian system and of annexing Ukraine's Crimea illegally in 2014, a move that isolated Russia internationally.

Source: dna May 06, 2018 07:15 UTC