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Protests across Russia resulted in more than 800 arrests

A rights organization, said 826 individuals have been arrested across 37 locations in Russia as a result of today’s anti-mobilization protests.

According to the independent protest monitoring organization OVD-Info, 309 people have been detained in Moscow.

Sky’s Diana Magnay, who was at a protest in Moscow, said police were dealing with officers “very brutally”.

It comes after the Russian president announced a partial military mobilization, with 300,000 reservists set to be called up.

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