page_title: 2017–2018 Russian protests
section_title: 5 May 2018
hierarchical_section_title: 2017–2018 Russian protests / Events / 5 May 2018
caption_attribution_description: English: In Moscow, the action «Он нам не царь» was held. Русский: В Москве прошла акция «Он нам не царь».
context_page_description: The 2017–2018 Russian protests were a long series of countrywide street protest actions and demonstrations in the Russian Federation, with the major requirements of:
  suppressing corruption in the Russian government;
  abandoning the planned retirement age hike.
  As there is a separate article for the 2018 Russian pension protests, the information presented below is almost exclusively concerned to the anti-corruption manifestations. These were primarily led by Alexey Navalny, also eminent participants were Libertarian Party, Open Russia and Artpodgotovka. Some actions occurred due to the situative reasons although had their root in the corruption at the different levels up to the highest echelons of the Russian power.
  The protests and demonstrations against corruption in the Russian government began in March 2017 after the release of the film He Is Not Dimon to You by Alexey Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation.
  By March 2017, the setting in the country was already tense.
context_section_description: Mass protest actions and rallies took place in 90 towns and cities over the country against Vladimir Putin fourth inauguration. 
  Alexey Navalny in his blog compared Vladimir Putin with a tsar.
  More than thousand people were arrested countrywide.
  The majority of people were detained in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Chelyabinsk, Yakutsk, Krasnodar, Tolyatti, Krasnoyarsk, Voronezh, Astrakhan, Penza, Kaluga, Belgorod, Novokuznetsk, Vladimir and Samara.
caption: «He's not our tsar» rally in Moscow, 5 May 2018
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