The wife of prominent Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny announced her arrest on Saturday as police clashed with demonstrators across the country.

Yulia Navalnaya said she was arrested at a rally in Moscow when police arrested hundreds of protesters in a day of protest in Moscow and other cities

(Alexei Navalny and his wife Yulia at the passport checkpoint at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on Jan. 17/ AFP via Getty Images )