Russian police have arrested at least another 560 people at anti-war protests across 26 cities, the civil rights group OVD-Info says in an updated tally.
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Lawyers for the organisation were able to provide legal assistance to some of those arrested, the group said.
In many cases, those arrested were fined or detained.
Horror over their country's attack on Ukraine has driven many people in Russia to take to the streets in protest.
More than 1700 people protesting the war had been arrested on Thursday, the first day of fighting.
In neighbouring Georgia, tens of thousands of people protested on Friday evening.
In what local media said was one of the largest rallies in the Georgian capital Tbilisi in recent years, demonstrators expressed their displeasure with the Georgian government, which has refused to join other countries in imposing sanctions against Vladimir Putin's government.
Georgia itself suffered a military defeat at the hands of Russia in 2008 in a brief war over the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
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