Police in Russia's far east broke up a long-running anti-Kremlin protest with force on Saturday, detaining 25 people according to local authorities, in response to what they called an illegal attempt to erect protest tents in a central square.
The demonstrations, in the city of Khabarovsk, have been going on for the last three months against President Vladimir Putin's handling of a regional political crisis.
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Video footage on social media showed baton-wielding police wearing body armour hauling protesters away and dismantling tents as a woman screamed "What country do you live in?"
Opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who is recovering in Germany from what Berlin says was an attack on him using a nerve agent, condemned police. "The authorities in Russia are simply scoundrels," Navalny tweeted.
