Reports appeared that the Russian Guard (elite special forces) arrived in Bashkortostan to deal with the protesters.

When beating protesters, security forces use tear gas, stun grenades, shields and batons. Protesters report

"violent clashes" with police, Russian Telegram channels write.

Alexey Navalny is seen on the screen during his legal appeal against his nine-year prison sentence, in Moscow's City Court, on May 24, 2022, in Moscow, Russia.

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The situation in Bashkortostan continues to escalate, Russian media report.Russian law enforcers continue beating up the locals who came to support public activist Fail Alsynov. Reportedly, they also use tear gas.

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Alexey Navalny, Russia's jailed opposition leader, has gone missing, according to his supporters

By Haley Ott

Updated on: December 25, 2023 / 9:03 AM EST / CBS News

Update: Alexey Navalny has been moved to a penal colony in the Arctic, his spokeswoman said on Dec. 25.

Allies say Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny is no longer in the penal colony in which he had been imprisoned since last year, and they cannot locate him.

"Today, as on Friday, the lawyers tried to get to IK-6 and IK-7 — two colonies in the Vladimir region where Alexey [Navalny] might be," his spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, said Monday on social media. "They have just been informed simultaneously in both colonies that he is not there. We still don't know where Alexey is."

Navalny's aides had been preparing for him to be transferred to a harsher penal colony after he was sentenced to an additional 19 years on top of the over 11 he was serving, the Reuters news agency reported.

Alexey Navalny is seen on the screen during his legal appeal against his nine-year prison sentence, in Moscow's City Court, on May 24, 2022, in Moscow, Russia.

Obvious THIS WILL BE how the so called future Presidential election will be controlled.