Volunteers of Navalny were detained in Irkutsk

In Irkutsk, five volunteers of the election headquarters Alexei Navalny were detained. This was reported in the group of the Irkutsk team of Navalny in VKontakte.

Among the detainees there is one minor. As specified in the headquarters, volunteers were detained during the distribution of leaflets, they made protocols for agitation outside the election period.

During the summer in Russian cities, Navalny supporters conduct a campaign in support of the opposition’s nomination in the presidential election in 2018. In early July, more than 130 activists were detained on the “campaign of the campaign of the subbotnik” throughout the country.

On August 3, the Simonovsky court of Moscow fined Navalny for 300 thousand rubles for the alleged organization of campaigning measures on July 8 and 9. As stated in the protocol, the opposition coordinated the action on YouTube. Navalny himself in these dates was in a special detention center.