Tens of thousands of protesters held anti-corruption rallies across Russia on Monday in a new show of defiance by an opposition that the Kremlin had once dismissed as ineffectual and marginalized. The protests coincided with Russia Day, a national holiday that this year brought out historical re-enactors, some of them dressed in medieval costumes. The re-enactors watched the rally before riot police broke up the crowd and randomly seized the protesters. School and university staff who reportedly reprimanded their students for attending the March protests warned them against going to Monday's rally. Most of the Moscow protesters appeared to be under 30, although there was a sizeable number of middle-aged people and couples with children.

Source: ABC News June 12, 2017 08:16 UTC