Mass detentions in Moscow
Several thousand people, dissatisfied with the election results, came out to the Griboedov monument on Chistye Prudy yesterday. The incident has already been dubbed the “Russian Maidan”. By 11 pm, more than 300 people had been detained , including member of the Solidarity movement bureau Ilya Yashin, lawyer Alexei Navalny, deputy editor-in-chief of The New Times Ilya Barabanov, former activist of the Voina group Pyotr Verzilov and famous photo blogger Ilya Varlamov.