Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained outside his home in Moscow today for reasons that were not immediately clear, his spokeswoman said on Twitter.
"Navalny was detained two hours ago outside his home. He is now in the Danilovsky police station. They did not say why he is being detained. They took his phone away," Kira Yarmysh tweeted.
In an interview to radio station Ekho Moskvy, Yarmysh said it is "probably linked" to Navalny's plans to hold protests against the Russian government's unpopular pension reform on September 9.
In a blog post published today, Navalny said the protests will take place in Moscow and "in almost a hundred other cities."
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