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    Russian Police Briefly Detain Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny — Again

    Navalny says he faces jail time for organizing illegal protests. It's not the first arrest this year for the Kremlin critic, who has been barred from running in this year's presidential election.
    by Colin Dwyer Feb 22, 2018 1 minute
    Alexei Navalny takes a selfie with his supporters during a rally last month calling for a boycott of the presidential election in March, which he has been banned from running in.

    Russian police detained Alexei Navalny for less than an hour Thursday, the prominent opposition leader . Navalny said that during the brief arrest, which came just as he was leaving a dental appointment,

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