Our correspondent in Moscow, Oliver Carroll, Posted a video of the police taking out a bloody protest.

“The St. Petersburg police have a bad reputation, and today they are no exception,” he says.

Videos circulating on social media show police beating protesters:

A watchdog group reported that the number of people arrested in today’s protests now exceeds 3,000.

A news agency reported that a man set himself on fire in Moscow:

In St. Petersburg, protesters were filmed applauding as the police made a noise:

Thousands protested across vast Russia today, including:

In the capital, hundreds marched through the city center.

Crowds chanted, “Putin quit!” And Putin, a thief! “Referring to a luxury property on the Black Sea said to have been built for the Russian leader, which was featured in a widely popular video released by Alexei Navalny’s team.

The demonstrators later moved to Matroskaya Tishina Prison where Mr. Navalny is being held, but riot police greeted them and pushed the march back and chased the protesters across the squares.

It was in this city in East Siberia that one of the largest gatherings was organized, with thousands of people marching through the city.

More than 100 protesters were arrested.

An estimated 2,000 participated in a march through Russia’s second largest city.

Clashes erupted from time to time, as some demonstrators pushed police forces, who tried to make arrests.

In the easternmost port city on the Pacific Ocean, at least 120 people were arrested after protesters danced in the ice and rallied in the city center.

Additional reports from the AP

Thousands have taken to the streets in Russia for the second weekend in a row to protest the arrest of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Police detained a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin in mid-January after he returned to Moscow five months after suffering near-fatal poisoning. He accuses Putin of ordering his death, which the Kremlin denies.

Upon his return, Navalny was imprisoned for 30 days at the request of the Russian Prison Service, which alleged he violated the probation period for his suspended sentence of his 2014 money laundering conviction which he dismissed as political revenge.

A court is scheduled to meet next week to consider his sentence of up to three and a half years in prison.

Here is what happened when he was arrested after arriving in Moscow earlier this month:

Additional reports from the AP

Russian police have detained more than 2,100 people so far in unauthorized protests across the country on Sunday, according to the protest watch group.

OVD-Info regularly updates its numbers online, the big number in red on this site:

Rallies are being held across the country for the second weekend in a row to demand the release of Alexei Navalny, the imprisoned opposition leader.

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in dozens of cities last weekend to protest the poisoning and imprisonment of the Kremlin critic.

Journalists and photographers were among the thousands arrested across the country, often violently, by Saturday evening, according to the protest watch group OVD-Info.

Oliver Carroll I mentioned about the protests last weekend:

In Russia’s Far East, demonstrators showed their support for Alexei Navalny while on the ice: