Kremlin said on Monday it did not regard opposition leader Alexei Navalny as a political threat to the upcoming presidential election and that protests he had organized on Sunday had been sparsely attended in places.
Navalny Cheap New England Patriots T-Shirts , who has been barred from running over what he says is a trumped-up suspended prison sentence, has called on voters to boycott what he says will be a rigged election on March 18.
Opinion polls show incumbent President Vladimir Putin is on track to be easily re-elected.
Though unlikely to influence the result, Navalny's call for a boycott attracted thousands of protesters to rallies across Russia on Sunday, which saw the opposition leader detained by the police for several hours.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call on Monday it was unlikely that anyone could compete with Putin in the race.
"Putin is an absolute leader in the public's opinion, a leader of the political Olympus Cheap New England Patriots Hoodie , with whom at this stage it is unlikely anyone could compete," Peskov said.
He said some of the protests had been thinly attended.
Asked whether the Kremlin considered Navalny a threat, Peskov said "no."
Around 1,500 protesters converged at a square adjacent to the Kremlin on Sunday, with hundreds also attending rallies in St. Petersburg Customized New England Patriots Jersey , Russia's second-biggest city, in Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountains, and other major centers.
Moments after Navalny appeared at Sunday's rally in Moscow he was wrestled into a patrol wagon and taken into detention.
He was released around midnight without charges, his lawyer Olga Mikhailova said, but would face court at a later date.