Police detained coordinator and volunteer of Navalny’s Yekaterinburg headquarters

Police in Yekaterinburg detained the coordinator of Alexei Navalny's headquarters, Yuri Kuzminykh, and volunteer Andrei Trusov. They were taken away from the headquarters to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the city, according to the page "Team Navalny | Yekaterinburg" on VKontakte.

Protocols were drawn up against the activists for the rally on May 5 under part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the procedure for holding a public event by its participant). Trusov and Kuzmin were released about an hour later.

• According to OVD-Info, about 1,600 people were detained at the “He is not our king” action across the country on May 5, according to OVD-Info.