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EU urges Russia to release protesters 'without delay'

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The European Union today urged Russia "to release without delay" what it said in a statement were "peaceful demonstrators" detained a day earlier during nationwide protests against corruption.

Top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who has announced plans to run for president in a 2018 election, was among hundreds arrested in Moscow during a march that was one of the country's biggest unauthorised demonstrations in recent years.

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First Published: Mar 27 2017 | 12:28 PM IST

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