ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />STORY: More than 3,000 supporters of convicted Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny gathered to protest on a central square in Moscow just outside the Kremlin on Thursday, but most of it was fenced off and police used loudspeakers to order people out.<br/> <br />Navalny was sentenced to five years in jail for theft earlier in the day, an unexpectedly tough punishment which supporters said proved President Vladimir Putin was a dictator ruling by repression.<br/> <br />Navalny is an anti-corruption campaigner who led the biggest protests against Putin since he took power in 2000.<br/> <br />Police pushed protesters away with increasing force and reached into the crowd repeatedly to detain protesters who drew applause by holding up pictures of Navalny.<br/> <br />At least 10 people were detained in Moscow and bundled into police buses, and protests were also held in other cities including St Petersburg, Yekaterinburg in the Urals.
