Video footage shows protesters chanting ‘Putin is a thief’ as they linked hands and marched in freezing temperatures
Supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny have taken to the streets in Siberia and the Russian far east for a second straight weekend despite a sweeping crackdown on his allies and warnings from the police.
Rallies are also planned in Moscow later on Sunday, part of a campaign to win the release of president Vladimir Putin’s most prominent opponent. He was arrested on 17 January after returning from Germany where he had been recovering from a nerve agent poisoning in Russia last summer.
