EU urges Russia to release protesters 'without delay'

The European Union today urged Russia "to release without delay" what it said in a statement were "peaceful demonstrators" detained a day earlier during nationwide protests against corruption.

Top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who has announced plans to run for president in a 2018 election, was among hundreds arrested in Moscow during a march that was one of the country's biggest unauthorised demonstrations in recent years.