Before the rally in Nizhny Novgorod, the police detained Navalny and Volkov

The police detained the founder of the Foundation for the Corruption of Alexei Navalny at the entrance of his house. He reported this on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/p/bznakzonevw/

According to the politician, he is being taken to the Danilovsky police department. The reasons for the detention are not called.

Later, the Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that Navalny was detained for repeated calls to participate in inconsistent promotions. It is reported by Interfax .

The politician showed the papers on the basis of which he was detained.

https://twitter.com/navalny/status/913708310276263936

According to Interfax, the police drew up a protocol on an administrative violation under part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of the established procedure for organizing or conducting a rally).

The press secretary of Navalny Kira Yarmys connected his detention with the intention of holding a rally on Palace Square in St. Petersburg. She noted that the charges have not yet been charged.

As the press secretary of the Navalny campaign Ruslan Shavedinov said , the police ordered everyone who left Navalny’s headquarters in Nizhny Novgorod.

On the morning of September 29, a scene and soundaging were dismantled on Markin Square. The head of the Navalny election campaign Leonid Volkov wrote a statement to the police to prevent the rally (Article 149 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

https://twitter.com/leonidvolkov/status/913664949133725696

As a result, after the adoption of Volkov’s application , they detained for violation of the established procedure for holding rallies. He was left in the police department at night.

In addition, the police detained the coordinator of the headquarters of Navalny Olga Gusev and the head of the legal department of the FBK Ivan Zhdanov. The police claimed that they were detained by an unauthorized event. Later Gusev and Zhdanov were released.

The day before the rally, police officers came to the supporters of Navalny in Nizhny Novgorod, they demanded to "sign some paper with a promise not to go to the meeting of Navalny with the Nizhny Novgorod." This was told by activist Yuri Shaposhnikov.

On September 29, Navalny was going to speak at a agreed rally in Nizhny Novgorod, on Markin Square. The day before the event, the politician reported that this place will be held a sports festival, which will end right before the start of the action. After that, the local authorities said that the action will be considered inconsistent. The police and the prosecutor's office called the action illegal.

On September 27, Navalny said that he would apply for a rally on the Marse Field on October 7. “If the administration again illegally refuses us, then I just come and spend my meeting on Palace Square. And after it is a peaceful procession, ”the politician added.