Demonstrations Saturday in support of detained opposition leader Alexei Navalny were the biggest protests to go ahead without an official permit for many years. An estimated 20,000 to 40,000 people turned out in Moscow, and overall up to 100,000 were on the streets in about 100 cities. Over 3,000 people were arrested — another record — but there was no evidence of the kind of widespread police brutality that might trigger public outrage.

The Investigative Committee opened four cases of violence against government officials at rallies in support of Navalny on January 23 in Moscow.

A woman injured during a rally on January 23 in St. Petersburg is being discharged from the hospital, learned RBC . In general, the protests appear to have done without life-threatening injuries to the participants. What happened The woman was taken to the Research Institute of Emergency Medicine. I.I. Dzhanelidze on the evening of January 23 after she was kicked in the stomach by one of the police officers leading the detainee from Vosstaniya Square.

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The Kremlin believes that the January 23 protests in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny were few in number — “a lot of people vote for Putin,” Dmitry Peskov said on the Rossiya-1 channel. Dmitry Peskov President Putin's press secretary “This is beneficial for those who want to further shake the situation. In fact, it doesn’t swing, because you don’t forget, now many will say that many people came out to illegal actions.

Facebook has suspended the account of Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin after a skirmish with former US Ambassador to Russia Mike McFaul. Rogozin had to comment on what was happening already in Telegram. Rogozin himself told RIA Novosti that Facebook blocked the official's account. “My account was banned for a day because my post allegedly violated community norms. The post itself was hidden. That's all American-style 'freedom of speech'," he told a government agency.

The most massive protests over many years in Putin's Russia could not but attract the attention of international media. In connection with them, they write a lot about Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Putin and the alleged future of the country. We have chosen the most indicative of foreign comments. The New York Times "Protest in support of Navalny swept around Russia as a challenge to Putin" Folk speeches will not weaken the grip of President V.V. Putin for power immediately.

Hello! This week our top story is the nationwide protest that took place over the arrest of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. We also look at why the son of one of Russia’s richest men has been kicked out of the family business and sent off to do military service, and how a Russian company helped save messaging app Parler . Apologies for the lateness of our newsletter this week: we decided to delay its publication to allow us to cover the opposition protests that took place Saturday.

The rally inconsistent with the authorities on January 23 in support of Alexei Navalny turned out to be one of the most numerous in recent years, despite the fact that this time was much less than half of the protesters for Moscow. In total, residents of at least 111 cities throughout the country took part in the protest - and these are only those in which there are data on detentions. The number of detainees became a record.

The number of people detained at rallies in support of the arrested politician Alexei Navalny on January 23, according to the OVD-Info integrator , approached 3,300 throughout Russia. Project coordinator Leonid Drabkin said that this is a record for all ten years of its existence. As of the early morning of Sunday, January 24, 3,296 people were detained. More than a third of the arrests occurred in Moscow (1294), half of the detainees fell on the capitals (in St. Petersburg - 489).