Moscow police on Sunday said they detained over 250 people after clashes with protestors at a mass opposition rally in the capital on the eve of Vladimir Putin's inauguration as Russian president.
"More than 250 people were detained in the centre of Moscow for illegal actions," police said in a statement, saying most arrests were made at a mass rally over the river from the Kremlin while others were at a smaller nationalist protest close to the Bolshoi Theatre.
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