Two employees of Navalny’s headquarters in Rostov-on-Don were arrested, two were fined

The Proletarsky District Court in Rostov-on-Don ruled on administrative cases of employees of Alexei Navalny's headquarters. They were charged with repeated violation of the procedure for holding a rally (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) for participating in a meeting of voters in support of the politician's self-nomination. This was reported on the page of the local policy team on VKontakte.

Headquarters coordinator Anastasia Deineka was arrested for eight days, Vladimir Kobzev - for ten days. The journalist and staff member Timofey Martynenko was fined 250 thousand rubles, Leonid Sankin was fined 75 thousand rubles.

The court decided that the meeting of a group of voters in support of the self-nomination of Alexei Navalny, which took place on December 24, 2017, was an uncoordinated rally.

“The blatant incompetence of the judge is also striking: he claimed that Navalny had already been denied the nomination on December 24, and nevertheless we held the meeting anyway,” they write on the team’s page.

The court session on the administrative case of Volodymyr Ivakhnenko's headquarters volunteer was also supposed to take place today, but it was rescheduled.

• On January 17, the court fined two supporters of the Navalny Headquarters for a voter meeting. Headquarters volunteer Boris Papayan was fined 75,000 rubles for repeated violation of the procedure for organizing a rally (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Headquarters employee Vladislav Kulchitsky - 30,000 rubles for violating the rules for organizing a rally, which interfered with the movement of vehicles or the functioning of other infrastructure (part 3 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).
• The meeting of the initiative group was held on the Theater Square of the city, the activists collected signatures for the nomination of Alexei Navalny for president. Then no one was arrested.