The police reported the arrest of one hundred people in St. Petersburg. Journalists counted five times more

About 100 people were detained at the actions of supporters of Alexei Navalny against raising the retirement age in St. Petersburg. Such data was given by the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for ensuring the protection of public order and coordination of interaction with the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, Yuri Valyaev.

In Moscow, according to him, "several people" were detained.

• Petersburg media, whose correspondents were present at the action, gave much higher estimates of the number of detainees. "Fontanka" reported that "400-500 people" were detained. The ZakS.ru publication wrote that there were about 300 detainees on Pirogovskaya Embankment alone.