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Out - and on the Volga
Alexei Navalny was released after 20 days of administrative arrest appointed to him for a call to hold the action in Nizhny Novgorod. The politician himself announced this on Instagram.
On Sunday, a photo of the banner "Putin - it is time to clean up on Sunday - it is time to choose" on Sunday - it's time to choose ", stretched out on the railing of a large stone bridge. “Protest Moscow” congratulates Alexei Navalny on his liberation and wants a successful continuation of the election campaign, ”the activists wrote. The banner sagged for some time, after which he was removed by the police. The participants were not detained.
Already on Sunday, Navalny spoke for shares in Astrakhan. “The rally in Astrakhan was excellent, although everyone was wet. Thanks to everyone who came,” the politician wrote .
On October 2, the judge of the Simonovsky District Court of Moscow Khizir Musakaev arrested Navalny for 20 days under part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of the procedure for organizing rallies). The Savelovsky District Court of Moscow imposed the same punishment to the head of its Federal Staff Leonid Volkov.
Both were arrested for calls to take part in the Nizhny Novgorod rally on September 29. The action was agreed, but the local authorities banned it at the last moment. In the morning of the same day, Navalny was detained in Moscow when he left the house to go to Nizhny. In the lowest, wolves were detained. The action in the city that day still took place, several of its participants also received administrative arrests for up to 20 days .
On October 2, after the trial, Navalny called for the protest shares throughout the country on October 7.
On October 6, the judge of the Moscow City Court Anna Seliverstova rejected Navalny's appeal and left him under arrest.
On October 7, throughout the country, on the call of Navalny , protests were held on the birthday of Vladimir Putin . Participants in the shares demanded to release Navalny and allow him to elections.