Police in Omsk demanded explanations from passers-by who received leaflets about Navalny

In Omsk, during a picket on July 15 at the campaign cube of Alexei Navalny, police officers demanded explanations from passers-by, to whom volunteers handed out leaflets. about this . writes On July 17 , the Vomsk portal

“Yesterday we passed by, took a leaflet and went further to the bus stop. We did not have time to reach, as representatives of our valiant police caught up with us. They asked me to show documents and write some kind of explanation. They didn’t write anything, ”the edition quotes the words of eyewitnesses.

According to Olga Kartavtseva, coordinator of Navalny's local campaign headquarters, the police tried to prevent activists from handing out leaflets and newspapers, "calling it as election campaigning." Traffic police officers also, according to eyewitnesses, inspected "all the transport that the cube could bring."