Moscow - Protests took place Sunday in several Russian cities, especially in the Far East, against higher taxes on imported cars and high fuel prices.
In the Far Eastern coastal city of Vladivostok, up to 1,000 demonstrations were confronted by police, who kept promises made a day earlier to act decisively against the unregistered protest.
A number of participants in the Vladivostok protest were arrested and journalists were hindered from recording the event, the RIA- Novosti agency reported.
Immediately preceeding the demonstration in Vladivostok, protesters driving more than 40 cars deliberately slowed down traffic through the centre of the city, population
600,000.