Police detained six of Navalny’s supporters at the Moscow studio and around 16 protesters in other parts of Russia, OVD-Info, an independent monitoring group, said. You are not going there for me, it's for you and your future," Navalny tweeted after his arrest. * Calls for voters to boycott what it says is unfair vote

MOSCOW, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Hundreds of supporters of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny began a nationwide day of protest against the authorities on Sunday, calling on voters to boycott what they said was a rigged presidential election on March 18. NAVALNY.COM/Handout/Reuters TV via REUTERS

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was released from police custody late on Sunday after a brief appearance at a rally in Moscow calling for the boycott of a March presidential election that he said would be a rigged. “How many more years to do you want to live with these thieves, bigots and creeps?”

In Moscow, where a protest is expected later on Sunday, police forced their way into Navalny’s office and started questioning and searching people, citing reports of a bomb, an online feed run by Navalny’s supporters showed. :: There's more at stake in Russia's election than Putin's pride

The incident on Sunday morning came as hundreds of the 41-year-old's supporters began a nationwide day of protests against authorities, calling on voters to boycott what they believe will be a rigged presidential election on 18 March.
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is arrested by police at a protest rally in Moscow. His arrest comes shortly after police raid the headquarters of his unregistered Progress Party in an apparent attempt to disrupt online broadcasts of opposition rallies against Vladimir Putin, while police say they were looking for a bomb. Navalny is released from police custody without charge late Sunday but needs to appear in court later.