Navalny's representatives Kira Yarmysh and Ruslan Shaveddinov were detained at Sheremetyevo

In Moscow, at Sheremetyevo airport, the press secretary of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, Kira Yarmysh, and the press secretary of Navalny’s campaign, Ruslan Shaveddinov, were detained, Shaveddinov himself told Mediazona.

Yarmysh wrote on her Twitter that at the airport, FBK employees were stopped by customs officers and their belongings were inspected. After this, Yarmysh and Shaveddinov were taken for a personal examination, which was carried out in the presence of witnesses. Together with the press secretaries, producer Oksana Baulina was also examined . At the exit from the airport, Yarmysh and Shaveddinov were detained by police and put into a minibus. They were taken to the Danilovsky police station, where Shaveddinov received a police report under Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code (repeated violation of the established procedure for organizing or holding a meeting).

On January 28, Navalny’s representatives broadcast live on YouTube the Navalny LIVE channel , covering for 14 hours the all-Russian rally in honor of the “voter strike.” The police, trying to find the studio from which the broadcast was being broadcast, used a grinder to open the doors to three rooms in the FBK office.

On January 29, the Simonovsky court arrested the leading newscast on the Navalny LIVE channel , Dmitry Nizovtsev, for 10 days; The court fined presenter Elena Malakhovskaya one thousand rubles.

Updated at 18:37 . According to Protest Moscow, the police drew up a protocol against Shaveddinov under Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code (repeated violation of the established procedure for organizing or holding a meeting).

Updated at 7:08 p.m. Yarmysh and Shaveddinov were left overnight at the police station until the trial, according to Shaveddinov’s Twitter account.