Ilya Yashin's car was stopped by traffic police officers

The car of PARNAS activist Ilya Yashin was stopped by traffic police. It happened on the Moscow ring road. Yashin tweeted that employees said they had information that he had a firearm in his trunk. Later, Alexei Navalny said , according to Yashin, that the criminal investigation officers had already arrived, who were looking for witnesses to start a search. At the same time, in the photograph published by Yashin, the expired certificate of the police lieutenant colonel talking to him is valid until February 11, 2016.

https://twitter.com/IlyaYashin/status/698113946348347394

Yashin previously reported that he was preparing for publication a report on the regime of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, for which, in particular, he traveled to Grozny. In addition, Yashin is one of the applicants for the march in memory of Boris Nemtsov, which the organizers plan to hold at the end of February.