(27 Jul 2019) Russian police wrestled with demonstrators and arrested hundreds in central Moscow on Saturday during a protest demanding that opposition candidates be allowed to run for the Moscow city council.
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.
OVD-Info, an organization that monitors political arrests, said 317 people had been detained an hour after the protest started.
The Moscow city police department said 295, according to state news agency Tass.
The demonstration continued into the afternoon as lines of helmeted riot police tried to push back protesters, some of whom resisted.
Demonstrators shouted slogans including "We're the authority here!"
The crowd appeared to number several thousand.
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