Five previously detained participants in the All-Russian Truck Drivers' Strike were released from the police department and were taken to the police to give explanations as witnesses in various cases. Elena Petrovna Verbovaya, deputy head of the Regional Council of Labor Collective Representatives, reported this to OVD-Info by phone.
The following were detained: Enyakin Pavel Nikolaevich (was taken to police department No. 7), Volkov Yuri Ivanovich (Sovetsky District Department of Internal Affairs), Chipilev Dmitry Dmitrievich (Zheleznodorozhny District Department of Internal Affairs), Tychikhin Vitaly Anatolyevich (Levoberezhny District Department of Internal Affairs) and Mikhail Esin (Kominternovsky District Department of Internal Affairs). Enyakin was interrogated as a witness in the case of a gang stealing batteries. Volkov was interrogated in connection with a robbery in a local Tanais park. As Verbovaya reported, and this information was confirmed by other truckers, all of them have now been released.