On August 3, the Simonovsky District Court of Moscow fined Leonid Volkov, the head of Alexei Navalny's campaign headquarters, 300,000 rubles for calling on him to participate in a campaign subbotnik on July 8 and 9. This was reported on Twitter by the lawyer of the headquarters, Ivan Zhdanov.
against Volkov Earlier, a protocol was drawn up on “repeated violation of the procedure for holding public events.” The protocol treats the distribution of leaflets as a "hidden form of a collective public event."
At the same time, a similar case brought against Navalny himself is being considered in court. 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 specified in the protocol (July 6). This was reported on Twitter "Mediazones".
A similar protocol was also drawn up against the head of Navalny's Moscow headquarters, Nikolai Lyaskin. In this regard, the police came on August 3, first to his parents, then to him on the air.