Russia detains over 2,000 people demanding Alexei Navalny's release

Russian police detained more than 2,000 people at rallies on Sunday across the country calling for the release of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, the OVD-info protest monitoring group said.Police in Moscow locked down the center of the city ahead of a planned protest in the capital, according to AFP news agency.Police said the protests have not been authorized and will be broken up as they were last weekend, Reuters reported. More than 4,000 people were detained at the rallies on Jan. 23.Navalny, a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was detained by the police on Jan…READ FULL ARTICLE