“Everyone's waiting for Navalny ) 5 more minutes! pic.twitter.com/3BRHiuGa [1],” tweeted [2] [ru] @varlamov a short while ago, posting a picture of the crowd waiting outside a Moscow prison for activist Alexey Navalny [3]‘s release. @plushev tweeted [4] [ru]: “Absolutely fantastic numbers. In the middle of the night, some 5,000 people are viewing [the live broadcast [5]] of @navalny's release.” @sidorenko_intl reported [6] that “about [18,000] viewers from around the world” were watching it [7]. Finally, this tweet from @sidorenko_intl: “#Navalny is out. Everyone chants ‘hooray’.” @varlamov posts Navalny's picture [8]; @sidorenko_intl quotes [9] Navalny: “it's great to get into jail in one country, spend there 15 days, and get out in another country.”
Russia: Alexey Navalny Released From Jail
· Written by Veronica Khokhlova
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