By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin said Thursday that thousands of arrests at protests against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny were a necessary response to the unsanctioned rallies and strongly rebuffed Western criticism. Asked about the harsh treatment of thousands of detainees, many of whom spent long hours on police buses and were put in overcrowded cells, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that they have to bear responsibility for joining the unauthorized protests. 'The situation wasn't provoked by law enforcement, it was provoked by participants in unsanctioned actions,' Peskov said in […]
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