Russia: 7 Temporarily Detained During the President's Meeting with Journalism Students

7 journalism students (among others @kichanova, @rise_rebel and @ave_katerina) were detained during the meeting of the president Medvedev at the Journalism department of the Moscow State University,Vitaliy Shushkevich tweets [ru] (also see photo [ru]). They were temporarily detained for contemplating a political action and were released only after Medvedev had left the department. BestToday collects [ru] reactions of outraged bloggers.

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