Police detain wife of jailed Kremlin critic Navalny at Moscow protest

OVD-Info, a monitoring group, said that more than 300 people had already been detained at the Moscow rally.

Russian police detained Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, at an unauthorised protest in Moscow on Sunday, Navalny's allies said on social media.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his wife Yulia Navalnaya are seen onboard a plane during a flight from Berlin to Moscow, (File Photo / REUTERS)

OVD-Info, a monitoring group, said that more than 300 people had already been detained at the Moscow rally.

Navalnaya was also detained at a similar protest in support of her husband last week.