MK: Navalny flew to Barcelona

Politician Alexei Navalny flew to Spain. According to unnamed sources of Moskovsky Komsomolets, he flew to Barcelona on May 7. Life published a photo of Navalny on the plane.

Navalny himself has not yet commented on these reports. The head of his campaign headquarters, Leonid Volkov, when asked by Meduza about whether Navalny had left the country, answered “I don’t know.”

Unnamed sources of Moskovsky Komsomolets also stated that Navalny applied to the Kremlin to obtain a passport. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, when asked to comment , said that the Kremlin is not involved in issuing passports.

• Earlier, Navalny said that in order to treat an eye that was damaged during the attack on April 27, he needed to go to a foreign clinic. On May 4, the FMS agreed to issue him a passport for the first time in five years.
• At the same time, the Federal Penitentiary Service warned Navalny's lawyers that the convicts should not leave Russia.