Leaders and volunteers of the headquarters of the politician Alexei Navalny were detained in several Russian cities at once.
Saratov: the police detained the coordinator of the local headquarters of Navalny Mikhail Murygin and volunteer Andrei Kopshev. Murygin and Kopshev were the organizers of a local rally in support of Navalny on 7 October. They were taken to the police station No. 6 of the Frunzensky district of Saratov, they are left in the police department No. 6 until the morning.
Novosibirsk: was detained the head of the local headquarters of Alexei Navalny, Sergei Boyko, , they are going to draw up a protocol against him on violation of the procedure for holding rallies (Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). He was taken to the Tsentralny police department, about 20 people came to the police department to support the detainee.
Ufa: Police detained the coordinator of Navalny's Ufa headquarters, Lilia Chanysheva, she was taken to Police Department No. 6, after which she was taken to the Oktyabrsky Court. She is accused of violating the rules for holding a rally (Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The trial was postponed to October 13, Chanysheva was released.
In Nizhny Novgorod, they report that everything is in order. True, today the Nizhny Novgorod District Court arrested activist Vladimir Kravtsov, who was detained at a rally of supporters of Navalny, for twenty days for repeated violation of the rules for participating in a public rally (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).