Thousands of people have been detained after anti-war protests in Russia
Russian authorities also continued to block independent news outlets in an effort to tighten control over what information the domestic audience sees about the invasion of Ukraine.
Others decided to halt their operations in Russia because of new repressive laws or refused to cover the invasion at all because of the pressureThe last Russian protests with a similar number of arrests were in January 2021, when thousands demanded the release of opposition leaderafter he was arrested on returning from Germany where he had been recovering from a nerve agent poisoning.
Some Russian state-controlled media carried short reports about Sunday's protests but they did not feature high in newsRussia's RIA news agency said Manezhnaya Square in Moscow, adjoining the Kremlin, had been"liberated" by police, who had arrested some participants of an unsanctioned protest against the military operation in Ukraine.
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