 "Putin foe Navalny 'detained' ahead of anti-corruption rally in Moscow")
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was detained on Monday en route to a political protest in Moscow, his wife wrote on his Twitter account, posting a photo of him getting into a police car.
"Hello. This is Yulia Navalnaya... Alexei has been detained in the stairwell," she wrote about 40 minutes before an anti-corruption rally called by the Kremlin critic was set to start in the city centre.
"Hello. This is Yulia Navalnaya... Alexei has been detained in the stairwell," she wrote about 40 minutes before an anti-corruption rally called by the Kremlin critic was set to start in the city centre.