{"id":1278,"date":"2020-12-06T16:21:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T16:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=133735"},"modified":"2020-12-06T16:21:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T16:21:15","slug":"russian-police-detain-kremlin-critic-near-opposition-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/06\/russian-police-detain-kremlin-critic-near-opposition-gathering\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Police Detain Kremlin Critic Near Opposition Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/65E4B0D6-40B8-4177-8D36-F80A99F0629C_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>Russian police have detained prominent political scientist and Kremlin critic Valery Solovei.<\/p>\n<p>Solovei was detained in St. Petersburg on December 6 near a meeting of the opposition Change movement, which he founded in October.<\/p>\n<p>Police reportedly detained him for violating a coronavirus mask mandate, Solovei said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, unknown provocateurs threw a smoke bomb into the crowd of Change movement supporters.<\/p>\n<p>A former professor, Solovei had worked for the Moscow State Institute of International Relations until last year when he left the elite institution for what he said were \u201cpolitical reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He founded Change as a decentralized movement, taking as its model NEXTA in neighboring Belarus, which has covered and coordinated ongoing protests against authoritarian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Solovei was detained in Moscow after he and dozens of other protesters marched to show solidarity with protests in the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"wsw__h6\">With reporting by Current Time, RFE\/RL&#8217;s Russian Service, and Reuters<br \/><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/06\/russian-police-detain-kremlin-critic-near-opposition-gathering\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian police have detained prominent political scientist and Kremlin critic Valery Solovei. Solovei was detained in St. Petersburg on December 6 near a meeting of the opposition Change\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}