On August 3, the Simonovsky District Court of Moscow fined Nikolai Lyaskin, head of Alexei Navalny's Moscow campaign headquarters, 250,000 for calling for participation in the July 8 and 9 campaign subbotniks. about this on Twitter . wrote Ivan Zhdanov, a lawyer for Navalny's headquarters,
Earlier, the same court in a similar case fined the head of Navalny's campaign headquarters, Leonid Volkov, 300,000 rubles. According to Zhdanov, the decision against Lyaskin was no different from the decision against Volkov (with the exception of the amount of the fine).
A similar case is considered by the court on August 3 in relation to Navalny himself. At the same time, Navalny tried to find out in court how he could campaign by distributing a video if he was in a special detention center on the day indicated in the protocol (July 6).
All three were charged with "repeatedly violating the procedure for holding public events." And the distribution of leaflets, according to administrative protocols, is a "hidden form of a collective public event."