UPDATE: Moscow police say they arrested more than 1,000 protesters at banned rally for fair elections
Protesters attempt to remove fences during a rally calling for opposition candidates to be registered for elections to Moscow City Duma, the capital's regional parliament, in Moscow, Russia July 27, 2019.
The protests lasted more than seven hours, first in the area of the mayor's office and then moving to a square about a kilometer away. The dispute comes as the Kremlin is struggling with how to deal with strongly opposing views in its sprawling capital of 12.6 million people.Lines of helmeted riot police tried to push back the protesters in Moscow, some of whom resisted physically.
Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent opposition figure, had called Saturday's protest and was sentenced on Wednesday to 30 days in jail for doing so.
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