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RFE/RL: Hunger-striking Russian opposition activist Udaltsov hospitalized

Published Aug. 19, 2018 at 4:23 pm

Sergei Udaltsov, Russia's leftist anti-Kremlin group Left Front activist, takes part in rally against pension reform in Moscow on July 18, 2018 ahead of a parliament vote.Around 1,000 people gathered in Moscow on July 18, 2018, to protest a planned hike in the pension age, a day before the lower house of the Russian parliament is set to vote on the measure.

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The jailed leader of Russia’s opposition Levy Front (Left Front) movement, Sergei Udaltsov, has been hospitalized, observers and his social media channels say.

Udaltsov was taken to a Moscow hospital suffering from “dehydration” on August 19, five days into a hunger strike, a post on his Twitter account said on August 19.