MOSCOW ? Two leaders of Russia's political opposition have been released from the Moscow jail where they were held for 15 days.
Alexei Navalny and Ilya Yashin were arrested the day after the Dec. 4 parliamentary election while leading a protest against vote fraud.
The Dec. 5 protest unexpectedly drew more than 5,000 people, the biggest opposition rally in years, and helped to energize Russians discontented with the rule of Vladimir Putin.
A protest five days later drew tens of thousands in Moscow, while demonstrations drawing from a few hundred to a thousand people took place in more than 60 other cities.
Navalny told supporters upon his release early Wednesday that he "was jailed in one country and freed in another."
Another nationwide protest is being held Saturday.
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