Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has dismissed the tens of thousands of Russians who have protested the past weekends in support of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny as “hooligans and provocateurs” with whom there can be no dialogue. But eyewitnesses to the January 31 protests — and to the often-brutal police response — tell a different story.

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