Hundreds Arrested as Group Urges New Russian Revolution<br />The Federal Security Service, Russia’s main domestic law-enforcement agency, said in a statement on Friday it had broken up several cells of Artpodgotovka and<br />that members had "the goal of organizing a revolution in Russia." The statement said the group planned to attack police officers, set administrative buildings on fire and create mass disturbances.<br />5, 2017<br />MOSCOW — The police arrested more than 200 people in a roundup on Sunday<br />that the local news media linked to an obscure right-wing movement that had been calling for a repeat of the Russian Revolution, timed near its 100th anniversary.<br />The movement, called Artpodgotovka, or Art Preparation, had agitated in online posts for followers to prepare for revolution,<br />but had not been widely known or taken seriously before this weekend.<br />The people who followed directions in the group’s online posts<br />and showed up at noon on Sunday on Manezh Square, in the center of Moscow, milled about in seeming confusion before officers arrested them.<br />He called it "revolution 2017." Nov. 5 falls a day after a holiday in Russia known as Unity Day,<br />a successor to the former Soviet celebration commemorating the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.<br />In July, Russian prosecutors charged Mr. Maltsev under a law<br />that prohibits "calls to commit extremist actions." But because the authorities have also used the law against peaceful opposition figures in recent years, the accusation drew little attention.
