(CNN) Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of the Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, was detained in Moscow on Saturday on the sidelines of a protest held in support of her husband. The video shows Navalnaya being stopped by police at the entrance to a metro station in central Moscow near where protesters were gathered. The demonstration in Moscow was one of dozens of opposition rallies held in defiance of the authorities across Russia on Saturday. According to OVD-Info, an independent site that monitors arrests, more than 1,900 people were detained during various protests in nearly 100 cities. The demonstrations kicked off in Russia's far east city of Vladivostok and spread to the west as the day progressed.

Source: CNN January 23, 2021 10:43 UTC