
In Moscow, the police detained Nikolai Lyaskin, the head of the capital's headquarters of Alexei Navalny. Lyaskin reports this on his Twitter.
The police and a man in civilian clothes stopped Lyaskin’s car near his house, after which they forced to go to the Kosino-Ukhtomskoye police in the east of Moscow. “Accompanied by two cars and the police outfit, I’m going to the Kosino -Ukhtomskoe police department. They officially say to draw up an administrative protocol,” Lyaskin wrote. “There were talk about a possible trial today. From their words, the protocol will be waiting for the police, which will instruct.”
"The insomatist Putin and his environment are so afraid of our Moscow headquarters and the work of volunteers that it seems that Lyaskin will be arrested again now," Navalny wrote .
Lyaskin was kept in OP for several hours. However, then the activist was released without a protocol. “Under the video, they read out to me an obligation to turn out (I did not sign) in the same police department on November 9,” Lyaskin wrote . “It is not at all clear what was today. Apparently, they said to detain, but they didn’t say what to do. Well, now they will think until 9.11,”
On Sunday, the police detained Lyaskin, his deputy Vitaly Serukanov, lawyer of the headquarters of Dmitry Volova and five volunteers. They were delivered to OP "Presnensky". According to Serukanov, the police explained the detention "suspicion of organizing a rally." However, the opists said that they were "simply checked for the commission of crimes early." With the detainees, a man who introduced himself as an employee of the department for the execution of administrative penalties. As a result, all activists were released without protocols.
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, under 20-day arrest, and allow him to the presidential election.
On September 15, Lyaskin was attacked . The unknown, approaching from behind, inflicted two blows to the chief of staff with a steel pipe. The first blow fell on the head, the second - on the shoulder. Lyaskin was diagnosed with a closed head injury, a concussion, as well as a bruise and an abrasion of soft tissues of the occipital region. The police opened the case under Part 1 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism). Meanwhile, Lyaskin himself turned to the Investigative Committee of the TFR with a request to re -qualify the case to Article 277 of the Criminal Code (an encroachment on the life of a state or public figure). The Corruption Foundation supported the position of a functionary.
On September 19, Alexei Shcherbakov was detained on suspicion of attacking Lyaskin. During interrogation, he said that Lyaskin himself asked to organize an attack and promised to pay 150 thousand rubles for it. Lyaskin himself called this message "fierce hell" and a provocation. At the same time, he confirmed that he really saw Shcherbakov at the headquarters. On September 22, the suspect was released on a recognizance not to leave .