Sergei Udaltsov is free

Now, accompanied by lawyers and deputy Ilya Ponomarev, he is on his way to the temporary detention facility No. 1 on Simferopol Boulevard. There are about a hundred people there. The attendant of the special detention center turned to the audience, through a megaphone he said that the activist and defender of the Khimki forest, Yaroslav Nikitenko, had been released, without saying where he was. The situation is heating up. In the crowd, presumably, there are provocateurs. For a short time, an elderly man was detained and then released, silently holding a poster with a portrait of Sergei Udaltsov. After the address of the officer on duty, at his request, those gathered in an organized manner moved to the other side of the street, where they waited for the arrival of Udaltsov. According to the mother of Yaroslav Nikitenko, he is being taken to the place of registration in the Shchukino police department. The Shukino police department did not confirm this information to lawyer Nikolai Polozov. The location of Yaroslav Nikitenko is currently unknown.

UPD 21:00 Yaroslav Nikitenko called his mother and said that he was released from the Shchukino police department, according to lawyer Nikolai Polozov.

UPD Sergey Udaltsov at the walls of special detention center No. 1 gave a short speech to those gathered to cheers and applause, gave comments to the press, then Udaltsov and his wife Anastasia went home.