Russian Police Detain Scores of Protesters
This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Police rounded up scores of people demonstrating against President Putin yesterday, dragging protesters toward buses and beating some who tried to escape.
Hundreds of police armed with shields, body armor, and truncheons bore down on demonstrators chanting, “Russia without Putin!” in St. Petersburg. Among those detained was a likely contender in next March’s presidential election, Boris Nemtsov.
On Saturday, police detained dozens of anti-government demonstrators in Moscow, including a former chess champion, Garry Kasparov, who was sentenced to five days in prison in a hasty trial.