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Photos from protests sweeping hundreds of Russian cities on June 12
Source: Meduza
Russian anti-corruption activists staged demonstrations in more than 200 cities on June 12, when the country celebrates Russia Day. The media has focused mostly on rallies in Moscow and St. Petersburg, where police have detained hundreds of demonstrators, but thousands of Russians also attended these protests across the country. Meduza collected photographs from dozens of these protests.
Ulan-Ude
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Kazan
Omsk
Tomsk
Vladivostok
Barnaul
Norilsk
Novosibirsk
Krasnoyarsk
Krasnodar
Novokuznetsk
Rostov-on-Don
Tyumen
Komsomolsk-on-Amur
Abakan
Yekaterinburg
Belgorod
Orenburg
Yakutsk
Chelyabinsk
Iskitim
Ulyanovsk
Kurgan
Vologda
Magnitogorsk
Oryol
Yaroslavl
Irkutsk
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