“It had to happen’: Putin dictated Navalny’s prison camp ordeal, according to Moscow insiders. More than 100 people were estimated to have been arrested at commemorative events in several Russian cities by Saturday afternoon.
At least 157 people were detained in 25 cities because they publicly expressed their condolences to Alexei Navalny. The Russian opposition activist was sentenced to 19 years in a penal camp in a remote region of the country in the so-called Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, north of the Arctic Circle.