MOSCOW -- Police have detained two prominent Russian opposition leaders who called hundreds of their supporters to protest outside the presidential administration the night after Vladimir Putin's inauguration.
Police detained Alexei Navalny, a lawyer and blogger who made his name exposing corruption in the government and state corporations.
They also detained Sergei Udaltsov, the leader of a leftist movement. But hundreds of their supporters remained Tuesday morning after spending the night on the small square in central Moscow.
Putin began his third term as Russia's president after a formal inauguration ceremony in the Kremlin, while on the streets outside thousands of riot police detained hundreds of opposition activists to prevent them from protesting.
The Associated Press