Moscow police chief declares Navalny's anti-corruption protest a ‘failure by imbalanced people’

Vladimir Chernikov, the head of Moscow's regional security and anti-corruption department

“The most important thing is that the situation is under control and these provocateurs failed to create a precedent whereby they spoiled a holiday for everyone. [...] We were right. This was 100 percent a provocation by imbalanced people who refuse to answer for their actions and their words.”