World | Russia Russia Busts Opposition Leaders On eve of Putin's inauguration By Newser Editors and Wire Services Posted May 6, 2012 10:31 AM CDT Copied Opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov leads an opposition rally in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, May 6, 2012, with the Left Front opposition movement. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) Police in Moscow have arrested top opposition figures along with demonstrators after a protest march on the eve of Vladimir Putin's inauguration as president tried to reach the Kremlin. The march by about 20,000 people to an island adjacent to the Kremlin proceeded peacefully this afternoon until a small group tried to break off and cross a bridge across the Moscow River, which was blocked by police. As more people crowded toward the bridge, police sent reinforcements to the cordon, pushed demonstrators back to the rally site and began seizing demonstrators. At the rally site, opposition leaders Sergei Udaltsov, Alexei Navalny, and Boris Nemtsov were detained. Read These Next Beyonce leaves national anthem unfinished. Musk says his new party is in business. See the best BBQ cities in the US. A space capsule carrying ashes of 160 people crashed in the ocean. Report an error