The leader of the Yabloko party, Sergei Mitrokhin , who was detained on Triumfalnaya Square on Tuesday, December 6, was released from the Tverskoye police station. reports this Interfax with reference to the politician himself.

“This is a very original event: I was kept in the police department for more than three hours, without bringing any charges, without explaining any reasons for the detention. This is a gross violation of the law,” Mitrokhin said.

RIA Novosti reports that the leader of the Other Russia, Eduard Limonov , and a member of the presidium of the Solidarity movement, Boris Nemtsov , were released, who were also detained on Triumfalnaya Square and taken to the Tverskoye police station. As Nemtsov told the agency, “they detained without explanation, and then released without explanation.”

Meanwhile, Gazeta.ru journalist Bozhena Rynska, who, along with several other participants in the action on Triumfalnaya, was taken to the Levoberezhnoe police station, was also released. reported this on his microblog . Opposition activist Vitaly Shushkevich

Earlier, Tatyana Felgengauer, a correspondent for the Ekho Moskvy radio station, reported on her Twitter came to the station to help the detained journalist that Ekho editor-in-chief Alexey Venediktov and TV presenter Tina Kandelaki .

As previously reported, about a thousand people took part in the protest against fraud in the State Duma elections held on December 4. According to various sources, 250-300 people were detained.

In addition, about a thousand representatives of the Nashi movement, MGER and other pro-government organizations were brought to Triumfalnaya Square at the same time.

Opposition leaders were released from the police department