In Moscow, police detained a girl who was handing out leaflets with information about the rally on July 27

In Moscow, near the Vykhino metro station, the police detained a girl who was handing out leaflets with information about the political situation in Moscow and the July 27 rally. This was reported to OVD-Info by Aleksey Minyailo.

The girl was taken to the police department in the Vykhino-Zhulebino district, but was soon released without a protocol being drawn up.

On July 27, an uncoordinated rally is planned to be held in Moscow for the admission of opposition candidates to the elections to the Moscow City Duma.

• Many independent candidates in the elections to the Moscow City Duma were denied registration: the signatures they had collected were declared invalid. As a sign of protest, since July 14, candidates have been regularly holding mass meetings with voters in the center of Moscow.

On July 14, participants in such a meeting went to the mayor's office, and then to the Moscow City Electoral Committee, where they demanded the admission of candidates before the elections. As a result, according to OVD -Info, 39 people were detained at the rally, many of them told about beatings by the police. On July 20, an agreed-upon rally "For admission to the elections" was held in Moscow, which brought together more than 20,000 participants. During the rally, Alexei Navalny suggested that unregistered candidates hold a new rally on July 27 if they were not registered within a week. On July 24, it became known that the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on obstruction of the activities of the election commission (Article 141 of the Criminal Code) due to a rally in support of independent candidates on July 14. Candidates are already being searched, some of them are being summoned for interrogation. So far, they are in the status of witnesses.