The alleged luxuries include a house for raising ducks, so many placards in Sunday?s protests showed mocking images of yellow duck toys.
News reports and social media reported demonstrations in large cities throughout the country including Novosibirsk, Tomsk and Krasnoyarsk.
The protests appeared to be one of the largest coordinated outpourings of dissatisfaction in Russia since the massive 2011-12 demonstrations that followed a fraud-tainted parliamentary election.
The protests Sunday focused on reports by Navalny?s group claiming that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has amassed a collection of mansions, yachts and vineyards.
Navalny and his Foundation for Fighting Corruption had called for the protests, which attracted crowds of hundreds or thousands in most sizeable Russian cities, from the Far East port of Vladivostok to the European heartland.
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