In Cheboksary, the court returned the case of the coordinator of Navalny’s local headquarters to the police

In Cheboksary, the court refused to consider the case of Navalny's local headquarters coordinator Semyon Kochkin. He is being taken back to police station No. 1. Kochkin himself tweeted about this .

Earlier, police officers detained Kochkin at his own house before the start of the Voters' Strike action. The oppositionist was charged with Part 8 of Art. 20.2 (repeated violation of the procedure for organizing or holding a meeting).

UPD 20:39 Semyon Kochkin was released from the department. He was charged with part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses - a repeated violation of the procedure for holding the action.

• On December 25, the Central Election Commission refused to register oppositionist Alexei Navalny as a presidential candidate in the 2018 elections due to an outstanding criminal record.

After that, the politician called for a boycott of the presidential elections in 2018 and announced for January 28 an all-Russian protest action - “Voter Strike”.