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Sergei Udaltsov was detained in the center of Moscow
Update against Sergei Udaltsov : A protocol was drawn up under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (violation of the procedure for organizing or holding a rally). “Until the trial, which will take place on Monday, he will remain with the police, he was not released,” Violetta Volkova, Udaltsov’s lawyer, told Interfax on Saturday. Eduard Limonov, after drawing up a protocol under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, was released from the police station. Consideration of Limonov's administrative case is scheduled for October 3.
The leader of the Left Front, Sergei Udaltsov, was detained in the center of Moscow near Strastnoy Boulevard, where the Anti-Capitalism-2017 rally was supposed to take place.
According to the oppositionist in his tweet, police officers approached him and other activists on their way to Strastnoy Boulevard and said that they "gathered for an unsanctioned rally."
In total, according to Udaltsov, about 30 people were detained . The representative of the "Other Russia" Alexander Averin told reporters that among the detainees - the founder of the organization Eduard Limonov.
All the detainees, according to Interfax, are in police buses.
- The action "Anticapitalism-2017" on Strastnoy Boulevard in Moscow was not sanctioned by the city authorities. The organizers of the event, including representatives of the Left Front and Other Russia, said that the mayor's office, refusing to agree on the action on Strastnoy Boulevard, did not offer them an alternative, Ekho reported . Moskvy
- The organizers of Anti-Capitalism-2017 stated that they would not refuse the event, despite the decision of the mayor’s office, and would organize it in the form of “folk festivals”.
- On August 7, Sergei Udaltsov was released from the colony, where he spent three years after a court verdict on organizing mass riots on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow in May 2012. On September 13, he was detained for a solitary picket near the State Duma, but was released without a protocol being drawn up.