Around 100 demonstrators gathered in Moscow on March 8, International Women's Day, to demand that the Kremlin release Savchenko, who has spent more than a year and a half in a Russian prison.
Waving blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flag and carrying signs that read "freedom for Savchenko," the demonstrators were confronted by police, who detained as many as 35 of them, according to Russia's independent **vaya Gazeta newspaper.* Read more...