Samara before the rally of Navalny: the coordinators were taken to the police, the scene was dismantled, and the square was forced by buses

In Samara, the local authorities arranged a thriller from the preparation of the meeting of the opposition Alexei Navalny with potential voters. The court allowed the rally, despite the opposition of the authorities, and other measures were used: the coordinators were taken to the police, the scene was dismantled, and the square on the eve was forced by buses for participants in the abdomen dance festival, which clearly did not cause hype.

On the eve of Navalny rally in Pskov. There, the authorities, as often happens, agreed on the place on the outskirts of the city, and the event was held without incidents and, as the politician indicates , with a large combination of the people, despite the frost.

In Samara, the rally is allowed, emphasizes Navalny in the post , bringing two decisions of local courts - first instance and appeal.

At the same time, the Twitter coordinator of his headquarters in Samara Katerina Gerasimova is filled with reports of the ongoing attempts to counteract.

According to her, the day before, people in the form took one of the Gazelle, on which the contractor came to mount a scene for a politician's speech. Despite the loss of parts of the equipment, it was mounted. However, early on the morning of December 3, the police scene were dismantled and taken away, Medusa reports.

In addition, nine people preparing a meeting were detained. Gerasimova writes that they were released from the police after complaints about the exceeding the three -hour detention period, but the equipment has not yet been returned.

There was another non -banal way to complicate the installation: on the eve of Kirov Square, where a rally was planned, a lot of buses were parked - presumably for the participants in the belly dance festival in the nearest "Palace of Creativity".

Buses are in no hurry to take away the participants of the Belly Dance festival from Kirov Square, at which a rally with the participation of @navalny will begin after 20 hours. Apparently, the dancers will spend the night in them. pic.twitter.com/szugfm3fzs

- Katerina Gerasimova (@volgaletom) December 2, 2017

Gerasimova claims that so much transport for visitors and participants of the festival is not needed.

The thousands of inter-regional events (Belly Dance festival), due to which @samara_in forced Kirov Square by buses, where tomorrow at 16.00 a rally with @navalny's participation, it looks like this. pic.twitter.com/6kl29Speuo

- Katerina Gerasimova (@volgaletom) December 2, 2017

Later, the buses left.

The day before, President Vladimir Putin instructed the Prosecutor General’s Office to check the application of legislation on rallies.

Alexei Navalny conducts a regional campaign, hoping to create public pressure, which will force the authorities to register him with a presidential candidate. By law, he does not have the right to do so, since he was convicted of a difficult article. At the end of November , the constitutional court confirmed the ban.

The presidential election will be held on March 18, 2018.