Kremlin says Navalny and his protests are not a big deal, but they jailed him anyway by Andrew Osborn on Jan 29, 2018, 6:03 AM Advertisement
 MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Monday it did not regard opposition leader Alexei Navalny as a political threat ahead of a March presidential election and said protests he had organized on Sunday were not that big. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call that it was unlikely that anyone could compete with President Vladimir Putin ahead of a March 18 election which polls show he should comfortably win. Navalny has been barred from running against Putin over what Navalny says is a trumped-up suspended prison sentence. Russian police wrestled Navalny into a patrol wagon on Sunday moments after he appeared at a rally to urge voters to boycott what he said would be a rigged election. SEE ALSO: A map of fitness tracker data may have just compromised top secret US military bases around the world
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