Moscow braces itself for more protests Russia

Russians are set to protest for the fourth consecutive weekend to demand that opposition candidates be allowed to run in Moscow’s local elections in September — something authorities have so far refused to allow.

But this time, protesters are also demanding that political prisoners be released and that violence and detentions against protesters be investigated.

Protests are planned in at least 40 cities to show support for Moscow despite the thousands of detentions by police officers in the past few weeks at protests.

According to Russian monitoring group OVD-info, over 1000 people were detained in last weekend’s protests.

The protests started after independent candidates were not allowed to run in an upcoming September election for the Moscow City Duma, the city’s regional government.

Via Euronews 

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