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Russian opposition politician and anticorruption campaigner Aleksei Navalny has been detained outside his residence in Moscow, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said on Twitter on August 25.

Yarmysh said Navalny had been taken to a local police station and that his cell phone was taken away by the police.

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