MOSCOW: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was released from jail yesterday after three weeks behind bars for organising anti-Kremlin protests, his second spell in detention in as many months, reports AFP.

The 42-year-old activist left a detention centre in the south of Moscow in the early hours of the morning and spoke briefly to journalists before leaving in a waiting car.

“Over the 50 days I have been in jail we have seen yet more evidence that this regime is in complete decline,” he said, referencing recent embarrassments to Moscow’s intelligence services abroad and the launch failure of a manned Russian space rocket.