independent monitoring group ovi says police arrested hundreds of people anti corruption activist alex fein avali urged supporters to join the protests before he was sentenced to thirty days in prison for organizing an authorized public events. when joining us now from the russian capital of moscow bureau chief your overshadow good evening to you yuri so what more can you tell us about the extent of these protests are they only about this rather unpopular pension reform or is there more to it. well the pension reform is something that makes people in russia really angry as for today's protests marianna saying of ali an opposition politician who is in prison now you cited cold for these protests and at the end of the day much fewer people was on the streets this sunday than in his previous protests this was partly because not only wasn't there but also because young people are not so excited to protest against pension reforms and young people are actually the glee intel of not following nevertheless there were protests in all of russia with violent clashes with the police hundreds of russians have