Navalny, anticipating arrest, planned protests to force Kremlin to release him, ally says

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MOSCOW — Before he returned to Russia, opposition politician Alexei Navalny and his supporters had anticipated he would be arrested and planned to force the Kremlin to release him by staging repeated protests, a close ally has said. Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic, was detained on Sunday after flying home for the first […]

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