1,400 arrested at Moscow election protest: monitor

Russian police arrested almost 1,400 people as they gathered in Moscow at the weekend to demand free and fair elections, a monitor said, the biggest crackdown on a rally in the country in years. The rally comes amid wider public frustration over declining living standards that has hit President Vladimir Putin's approval ratings. Top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was jailed for 30 days for calling the fresh protest.

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