Navalny's headquarters coordinator was detained in Barnaul

In Barnaul, the police detained the coordinator of the campaign headquarters of Alexei Navalny Artem Kosaretsky. about this on her Facebook . wrote Olga Fotiyeva, head of the regional branch of the Party of Progress,

Kosaretsky is charged with disobedience to police officers (part 1 of article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Fotieva specified that he could be arrested.

The headquarters coordinator told Mediazona that he was detained for refusing to take a “paper” on preventing extremism, which a policeman tried to hand him during an agreed picket. On Wednesday, Kosaretsky came to the police department on the call of an interrogating officer to get acquainted with the results of the examinations. The coordinator passes as a victim in an assault case - at the end of June he was stabbed with a knife. After Kosaretsky left the office, the police took him to draw up a protocol, and then they took him to court.

On June 26, Kosaretsky went to the local administration to apply for public information about Alexei Navalny's campaign. On the way he was attacked by two men, one of whom slashed him with a knife on the elbow. According to Fotiyeva, the administration's guards "supported the attackers," and when Kosaretsky showed them the wound, they compared it to a mosquito bite.

On June 25, unknown persons tried to set fire to the office of Navalny's headquarters in Baranaul.