Volunteers of Navalny's headquarters Mikhail Melnikov, Vadim Sheremetev, Alexei Yefimov, Alexander Yermolaev and a fifth person, whose name is unknown, were detained in Samara at the "festive procession of the peoples of the Samara region". This was reported to OVD-Info by Ekaterina Gerasimova.
The procession was organized by the city hall. The activists carried the Chuvash flag and posters with the inscriptions "free people" and "oppressed people". Having seized the posters and the flag, the police released all the detainees without drawing up protocols.