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Citizen, drive
In Moscow, after the White Ring Auto Round, in support of Alexei Navalny and Swamp prisoners, human rights activist Mikhail Krieger was detained, the OVD-Info reports . The police demanded that he proceed to the Meshchanskoye police department in his car, where there were three more people. After the arrival of the passengers, they immediately released, and Krieger was taken to the department. Later he was released without drawing up the protocol.
The detention occurred immediately after the end of the rally, on Bolshaya Sukharevskaya Square. From there at noon, participants in the action started. About 30 cars with white ribbons drove along the outer side of the garden ring, the Grani.ru correspondent reports. "We just drove a full circle around the ring. There were few of us, but it was great!" - wrote a participant in the action Ekaterina Kalinichenko.
Auto races and festivities against repression
It was proposed to hold a car racing at a rally in the Novopushkinsky Square, held on Wednesday. In the campaign "in support of Navalny, political prisoners, as well as for fair justice and an independent judicial system, about three thousand people took part against its final fusion with the executive branch ( 
According to investigators, Navalny, being an adviser to the governor of the Kirov region, organized the theft of Kirovles property. To do this, he allegedly conspired with the officer and general director of Kirovles Vyacheslav Opalev. The investigation believes that from May to September 2009, more than 10 thousand cubic meters of forest products were stolen. Thus, the budget of the Kirov region caused damage in the amount of more than 16 million rubles. "Navalny was accused of organizing the embezzlement of someone else's property on an especially large scale (part 3 of Article 33, part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code), officers - in combination (part 3 of Article 33, part 4 of Article 160). The maximum punishment under these articles is up to 10 years of imprisonment of up to 1 million rubles.
On December 26, the Moscow City Duma adopted an amendment to the regional law on rallies, which prohibits the holding of public actions using vehicles on the garden ring and inside it "because of the complex road situation in the center of the capital." Such an amendment was adopted at the initiative of the head of the Mosgorduma Commission on the safety of Inna Svyatenko.
On February 19, 2012, the Russian cities held shares of motorists for honest elections under the general name "White Streets". Cars with white symbols drove along pre -planned ring routes. About two thousand cars participated in Moscow, 500 in St. Petersburg. Traffic lights on a garden ring and other central streets worked in a special mode, which caused for congestion. For some time, the streets leading from the garden ring to the Kremlin, in particular the new Arbat, were blocked. According to the participants in the rally, the traffic police created artificial traffic jams, including by simulating an accident.