Hundreds of Navalny supporters joined protest in Murmansk

Murmansk police did not interfere when protesters at the Five Corner Square shouted “Putin is a thief” and “We are the power here” as they demanded the release of anti-corruption activist Aleksei Navalny. Police officers were on the sideline, observing, but let the protesters march through Lenin Prospekt downtown in Russia’s Arctic capital on Saturday.  Similar protests took place across Russia, with The Moscow Times reporting about more than 2,000 people arrested in cities in European Russia, Siberia and the Far East. Among the detained was Lyubov Sobol, a close ally of Aleksei Navalny and lawyer for the Anti-Corruption Foundation. Sobol was brutally arrested…