The authorities seemed to pay particular attention to young people, such as this teen who was detained by police in Moscow on September 9.
RFE: After The Arrests: Russian Teens Tell Of Disrupted Lives Since Protests
When 17-year-old Assol Trubetskaya was detained at an unsanctioned protest in Omsk in September, the authorities seemed to be expecting her.
"The OMON [riot police] officers grabbed me and dragged me into a van," she told RFE/RL. "A woman from the Juvenile Affairs Department was already sitting in there."
In interviews with RFE/RL's Russian Service, teens across Russia told similar stories of how their lives were turned upside down after they were detained on September 9 during a nationwide wave of protests against a government plan to raise retirement ages.
More than 1,000 demonstrators were detained in more than 30 towns and cities during those protests, which were organized by opposition politician Aleksei Navalny.
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WNU Editor: What can one say about a government that cracks down on kids who are protesting peacefully. All that this will do is radicalize a new generation against the government.
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The most dangerous thing to any govt is angry teenage boy's.
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