Russian police detain over 5,000 people at Navalny protests, says monitoring group

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Russian police detained 5,021 people on Sunday at unauthorized rallies nationwide in support of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, the OVD-Info monitoring group said.
Authorities had said in advance that the rallies were illegal and would be broken up.
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