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To have pardon Alexei Navalny, found guilty of the theft in the Kirovles Eat case, it is necessary for him to plead guilty. According to RIA Novosti, the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov made such a statement. According to him, Vladimir Putin is aware of the situation with Navalny, but he believes that the court decisions should not be commented, but executed. "This question is in no way a question of the president of the country and has nothing to do with the president," Peskov said.

He also emphasized that he did not see the contradiction in the capture of Navalny into custody in the courtroom after the sentence is announced and the subsequent change of preventive measure. “Both that and the other were made in accordance with the law. There is no violation of the law,” Peskov expressed confidence.

He also expressed disapproval about the unauthorized protest rally in the center of Moscow. "It is impossible to approve such a bunch, and the only thing you can hope that henceforth everything will happen within the framework of the law," Peskov said.

On the morning of Friday, the Kirov Regional Court abolished the arrest of Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Officerov, convicted of the Kirovles case.

The preventive measure has been changed to a recognizance not to leave before the sentence enters into force. The judicial board made this decision on the proposal of the prosecutor's office, which the day before appealed the preventive measure. Navalny and officers thanked all the participants in the protest, held the day before. On Thursday, the Leninsky district court of Kirov sentenced Navalny and Officer to 5 and 4 years of the colony, respectively, and took them into custody ( responses to the verdict ).

The judge of the regional court, Ignatius Embasinov, noted that the preventive measure is being reviewed when changing the circumstances, which in this case did not happen. In addition, the judge referred to the European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and the Law on the Elections of the Mayor of Moscow, guaranteeing candidates equal rights to participate in the campaign.

Navalny said that in any case he would continue the election campaign. The day before, it was reported that in connection with the arrest, he takes off his candidacy for the mayor.

In the center of Moscow, on Thursday evening, an inconsistent of thousands of protest against repressions , marked by mass detentions, was held. Pickets and folk gatherings also took place in St. Petersburg and other cities.

The defense of Navalny and Officer should appeal the decision of the Leninsky District Court within 10 days, who found them guilty of embezzlement. According to investigators, in 2009, Navalny, who then worked as an adviser to the governor of the Kirov region, in conspiracy with the officer and the general director of Kirovles Vyacheslav Opalev organized theft of more than 10 thousand cubic meters of forest. The case, closed in 2010 for the lack of corpus delicti, was resumed after the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, criticized his subordinates for inaction. Later, the press secretary of the TFR Vladimir Markin explained that the investigation is undergoing accelerated mode, since Navalny "teases power."