Russian opposition figure released

ANKARA

Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny was released from jail on Friday after completing a 25-day sentence, his spokeswoman said.

Kira Yarmysh tweeted that Navalny had been released from a detention center at 9.00 a.m. local time (0600GMT).

Navalny, the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation and chairman of Russia’s opposition Progress Party, was jailed on June 13 for breaching rally rules.

He had called for an anti-Kremlin protest to take place away from an approved rally point on Sakharov Avenue to Tverskaya Street in the capital Moscow.

During the protests, which took place in several major cities including Moscow and St. Petersburg on June 12, Russian police detained more than 600 people.