INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Over 4,600 people in cities across Russia were detained at protests on Sunday against Moscow's military operation in Ukraine, a monitor
said, on the 11th day of the invasion.A police spokeswoman said 1,700 people were detained in Moscow after around 2,500 took part in an
Petersburg, Russian news agencies reported.OVD-Info, which monitors detentions at opposition protests, put the figure of detainees in 65
towns and cities across Russia at 4,644 people.It said police had used electric shockers on protesters.It also posted witness photos and
videos on Telegram messenger service showing riot police beating protesters with batons and demonstrators with blood running down their
faces.Memorial, Russia's most prominent rights group, said that one of its leading activists, Oleg Orlov, was detained on the capital's
Manezhnaya square as he held a placard.Svetlana Gannushkina, another veteran rights campaigner who has been tipped as a potential Nobel
Prize winner, was detained in Moscow on the day of her 80th birthday.A police van carrying a group of detainees to a police station
overturned in a road traffic accident, injuring nine, six of them members of the public, city police said.In the second largest city of St
Petersburg, with large numbers of riot police patrolled outside Gostiny Dvor, a building in the city center where protesters usually
gather.These protests came after hundreds were detained at demonstrations further east, such as in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk and in
Yekaterinburg in the Urals.Russian police on Friday had warned that all attempts to hold illegal demonstrations on Sunday would be
"immediately suppressed" and organizers and participants would face charges.The latest detentions brought the total number of demonstrators
held to more than 10,000 since Feb
demonstrations, and protesters facing jail terms, there have been daily protests since then.On Friday, jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny
of up to 15 years for publishing "fake news" about the Russian army.Police in the Kemerovo region in the Urals fined a man 60,000 rubles
reported, saying this was the first known use of the new legislation.
