MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin's biggest critics, was briefly detained by police on Sunday after a big campaign rally in his bid to become Moscow mayor.
Navalny, who led protests against Putin last year but is not expected to win the mayoral election on September 8, put up no resistance as he was led to a waiting police van and taken away after addressing several thousand people outside a Moscow park.
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