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Jailed Russian Blogger Tweets Instagram Pic from Police Van

Jailed Russian Blogger Tweets Instagram Pic from Police Van

Protesters inside the police van via Instagram. Photo: Alexey Navalny.

The smiling faces make it look like a rowdy night out, but this jubilant photo was snapped with an iPhone in the back of a Russian police van.

Yesterday, Moscow-based blogger Alexey Navalny was carted away by the authorities while documenting the massive protests following the country’s contested parlimentary elections.

“With my lads on the police bus. They all say hi,”  Navalny tweeted in Russian. An hour later, he posted another Instagram photo, this time a group portrait in the Izmailovo jailhouse of everyone arrested.

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