Moscow in lockdown as proceeded with Navalny fights lead to thousands confined

Thomas Henry
2 min readFeb 1, 2021

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The capture of resistance pioneer and Kremlin’s most conspicuous pundit Alexei Navalny has prompted fights and exhibitions across Russia. Police have basically captured the nerve of enormous Russian urban areas, including Moscow which is currently under lockdown.

Russia is seeing the biggest and most basic fights in 10 years set off by the capture of Navalny when he got back to Moscow following five months post recuperation from harming with nerve specialist. While trying to capture the rising dispute against Putin, the police were requested by Kremlin to keep more than 5000 nonconformists, including Navalny’s significant other Yulia Navalnaya who was driving the fights that entered the second week.

In a remarkable move, seven focal metro stations in Moscow were closed somewhere near public watchman troops and uproar police and furthermore closed demonstrators off roads to evade a week ago’s greatest fights since 2012. The move by Russian specialists has been denounced globally for capturing individuals simply for raising their voice against the government and self-assertively capturing serene demonstrators and columnists.

Police sought after dissenters across the city with immobilizers and stick and made irregular captures in a merciless style, harming a few people. After the Moscow downtown area being shut, the nonconformists walked towards the city’s Komsomolskaya Square reciting ‘Putin is a cheat’. Behind them were shielded police for making mass captures. As thousands were captured, they recited ‘opportunity’ while moving towards Matrosskaya Tishina prison in Moscow. This is a similar prison where Navalny is being held before this week's hearing.

One of the dissidents offers the experience. “Moscow resembles a fort today. They can stop us when there are insufficient of us but rather as more come it will be difficult to keep us wrote in.”Similar security safeguards were taken by police in Russia’s second-biggest city, St. Petersburg. Nevsky Prospekt, the fundamental focal point of the city, was closed down to forestall further exhibits. Dissidents anyway still figured out how to accumulate along sidestreets. Individuals had a go head to head with revolt police who endeavored to alarm them with metal shields. Groups reacted with applauding.

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Thomas Henry
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