A riot police officer climbs on a lamp pole to detain opposition supporters during a rally in Moscow, Russia March 26, 2017. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian high school student Roman Shingarkin had some explaining to do when he got home after becoming one of the faces of anti-Kremlin protests at the weekend. His father is a former member of parliament who supports President Vladimir Putin.
At the height of a protest in Moscow on Sunday against what organisers said was official corruption, 17-year-old Shingarkin and another young man climbed onto the top of a lamp-post in the city's Pushkin Square.
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