Snow Riot: Russian cops get heavily pelted with snowballs during Navalny protest

23 January 2021: The scene looks funny but it’s not. Russian cops detained more than 3,000 people in a string of co-ordinated violent police attacks on protests in solidarity to jailed russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, following his recovery from a near-fatal nerve agent attack with Novichok in Russia last August. Navalny, Putin’s most high-profile critic, was detained after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin last Sunday. On his return, he was immediately taken into custody and lated found guilt