“Police dragged away Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny on Thursday during a raid on the Moscow offices of his Anti-Corruption Foundation in a continuing crackdown on critics of President Vladimir Putin, later releasing him,” Bloomberg reports.
“The police action, involving masked officers in helmets, appeared to be aimed at preventing Navalny’s organization from airing a regular evening program Thursday that got 1.4 million views the previous week.”
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