
The head of the Russian Law Chamber, Henry Reznik, a few hours after the verdict in the case of the theft, the Moscow mayor candidate Alexei Navalny called his lawyers and advised them to protest the extraction measure, the election.ru reports, without revealing the sources of information. According to Reznik, in the case of submitting a petition of Navalny, they could let go of the investigative insulator.
Politics lawyers considered such a development of events not real, and never turned to the court. However, the prosecutor’s office stood up for Navalny, at the request of which he was released the very next day.
At the same time, according to the elephant.ru, about the call of Reznik several supporters of Navalny was told by the lawyer of the opposition Olga Mikhailova. However, the next day she had already refuted her words. “I didn’t talk to him, and I didn’t hear anything about this at all,” Mikhailova said.
However, Reznik himself confirmed the fact of the call. According to him, he "just dawned." “You know, I’m just older. Remember how Vasily Ivanovich Petka said?” I, Petka, are older, so my legs are dirty, ”the lawyer said, refuting the assumption that someone else advised him to call Navalny’s defenders.
On Thursday, the Leninsky court of Kirov sentenced Navalny to five years in a general regime colony and a fine of 500,000 rubles in the Kirovles case, and another person involved in the case of Pyotr Officerov - for 4 years in prison and the same fine. They were taken into custody in the courtroom. In the evening, in large cities of Russia, rallies were held in support of Navalny, in Moscow the event ended with overclocking after midnight and detention of about 200 people.
On the morning of Friday in the Kirov Regional Court, Judge Ignatius Embasinov announced the abolition of the decision of the Lenin court Kirov on the arrest of Navalny and Pyotr Officer in the courtroom. Thus, he satisfied the statement of the regional prosecutor’s office, which asked to release the convicts on a recognizance not to leave. The judge decided to release Navalny and Officer from the guard immediately.