Several dozen people, mostly Russian citizens living in Montenegro, gathered today in Podgorica's Independence Square in support of the Russian opposition figure and critic of the Kremlin's policy, Alexei Navalny.
Those gathered carried banners with the messages "Freedom for Navalny", "Russia is killing", "Tribunal for Putin", "Something is rotten in the state of Russia" as a sign of protest against the arrest of the Russian opposition figure.
On the same occasion, on January 23, a group of Russian and Montenegrin citizens protested in Herceg Novi and in front of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Podgorica.
Supporters of arrested Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny staged protests across Russia today demanding his release. Thousands of people were arrested before and during the protests.
Navalny was arrested on January 17 after returning from Germany, where he spent five months being treated for nerve agent poisoning, which he blamed on Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and President Vladimir Putin, which the Kremlin has denied.
A day after his return to Russia, he was sentenced to 30 days in prison, citing a 2014 probation violation when he was charged with fraud.
Navalny says that the indictment was politically staged.
He accused Putin of ordering his murder and called on Russians to "take to the streets" to protest his detention. The trial is scheduled to begin on February 2.
Navalny's detention has drawn widespread condemnation from the West, and the United States, the European Union, France and Canada are calling on the authorities in Moscow to release him.
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