Shake the balls

Throughout the country, the volunteers of the election headquarters of Alexei Navalny conduct a "campaign subbotnik". In many cities, shares are accompanied by detentions, reports OVD-info.

“It seems that all the security forces of Moscow switched to the interception mode of peaceful volunteers with leaflets and balls“ Navalny -20! 8 ”. 30 detentions already,” wrote activist Vitaly Seerukanov.

It is precisely the large inflatable balls of red color that cause special irritation of the security forces. “Wonderful balls. People like it, they enrage the police,” said the head of the Moscow headquarters Nikolai Lyaskin.

By evening, Lyaskin reported that more than 50 volunteers were detained. "52 detainees were when I last received information. People were already starting to release, this is good. Some are issued without drawing up a protocol, some draw up a protocol of 20.2 (the Code of Administrative Offenses on violation of rallies. - Ed.)," He told Interfax.

In Yekaterinburg, police officers "for an explanation" detained the lawyer of the local headquarters of Navalny, and then several more volunteers. They seized leaflets and took them to the police department. However, later everyone was released without taking explanatory.

In Novorossiysk, a volunteer Daniil Gogolev was detained for the distribution of campaign materials. Before the detention, he was attacked by an unknown person. He began to tear out the leaflet from the activist and threaten.

In Krasnodar, a volunteer of the local headquarters was detained for the distribution of leaflets. According to him, two dozen police officers participated in the detention.

"After the campaign cycle, the police approached Navalny's volunteers and began checking the vegetables for theft," the headquarters in Ufa said on Twitter.

On Saturday morning in Irkutsk, police came to the premises of the regional headquarters of Navalny and seized campaign materials. Four volunteers were detained during the day. They are charged with article 5.10 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (agitation outside the campaign period).

In Tyumen, the police detained the coordinator of the local headquarters and four more volunteers. In Izhevsk, the police stops cars with activists, referring to the operation "Anaconda". Two people are detained.

In the Gatchina of the Leningrad Region, on the site of a pre -agreed picket, where volunteers were going to install a campaign cube, “improvement work” was carried out and a tractor with a garden tool stood. The activists were attacked. “Two young people ran up, wanted to steal campaign materials. The guys tried to resist, for which they received a shovel on the head. They were taken away on an ambulance. Two victims are now in the hospital, both have a concussion, one of them has a trauma of the legs,” the page of the regional headquarters reports . According to volunteers, they were attacked by athletes from the city physical education and recreation complex "Arena". They are led by a deputy from "United Russia" Alexander of Russians.

On the eve of Navalny, he was released after 25 days of arrest appointed to him to hold the action on June 12. "In short: I am very pleased. The headquarters works perfectly without my participation. Only four months of the anti -corruption campaign pierced a huge gap in the wall of censorship. The regional coverage of protest actions is unprecedented and tries to stop us with the purely methods of police officer - the rest is not the rest of It works for us.

On the eve of the "campaign subbotnik" the police blocked Navalny's headquarters and seized agitation materials. On Thursday, at about 6 a.m., employees of the TFR and the police came to the Moscow headquarters. The on duty there Alexander Turovsky was beaten . On Thursday afternoon he was hospitalized at the Sklifosovsky Institute for Emergency. In Turovsky, a concussion was diagnosed with the brain, he made a lumbar puncture. However, on Friday the volunteer was discharged on Friday. Turovsky was taken to the police department, and then to the court. Judge Zamoskvoretsky District Court Elena Averchenko fined him for 500 rubles under Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (failure to comply with the legal requirement of a police officer).

From Wednesday, searches took place at Navalny’s headquarters in Novosibirsk, Astrakhan, Vologda, Yekaterinburg, Kazan. In Saratov, Samara, Ufa, Tula and other cities, volunteers could not get already delivered circulations of a campaign newspaper in logistics companies.