Activists who planned to meet Navalny were detained at the St. Petersburg airport

At the St. Petersburg Pulkovo airport early in the morning of January 17, civil activist Pavel Ivankin and libertarians Alexander Kray and Alexey Barich were detained. The telegram channel “Perpetual Protest” is about this.

reports A police officer explained that the reason for the arrest was a complaint to the KUSP (crime reporting book) - allegedly Ivankin, Barich and Krai could be preparing for mass unrest. The activists objected that they simply wanted to go to Moscow. “We need to look into this,” the policeman replied. Video telegram channel “Agit Russia”.

publishes The detainees were taken to police department No. 51. Pavel Ivankin reported that by 11 o’clock he and Alexey Barich were released without protocols, and Alexander Kray was taken to another department because of one of the previous actions.

Then, Mediazona correspondent David Frenkel, Avtozak LIVE, was detained at the reception desk.

transmits “It’s wildly cold in the cage in the car, although I’m dressed warmly. He warned me that I shouldn’t freeze with a pin in my hand, so they simply threw me by my arms and legs into a cage in the car,” Frenkel on Twitter.

11:22 writes

David Frenkel was also taken to the 51st police department, he is on Twitter.

11:42 reports

Alexander Kray was released after drawing up a protocol for violating the “high alert” regime (Article 8.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of St. Petersburg). The telegram channel “Detentions St. Petersburg” is about this.

11:56 David Frenkel writes on his Twitter that a criminal investigation officer tried to communicate with him:

12:53 told

Frenkel was released from the police without presenting anything, Mediazona.

13:38 writes Late in the evening of January 16, police coordinators of the regional headquarters of Alexei Navalny Irina Fatyanova and civil activist Ilya Gantvarg, as well as the editor of the YouTube channel “Objective of Realities” Andrei Makashov. They were taken off the train to Moscow. Earlier that day, security forces drove the car of Postcard coordinator in the Leningrad region Dmitry Skurikhin, who also planned to go to Moscow to meet Navalny. In Moscow, during January 16, the police approached opposition politicians to convey warnings to them in connection with the upcoming meeting at the airport.

detained , seized, came home - Alexei Navalny underwent a long course of treatment and rehabilitation in Germany after he was killed on a plane flying from Tomsk to Moscow on August 20. The plane made an emergency landing in Omsk, then, after lengthy negotiations, the politician from Russia was hospitalized in the German Charité clinic. Navalny spent about two weeks in a coma. Representatives of the Berlin Charité clinic, where Navalny was taken, found signs of a chemical warfare agent from the Novichok group in his body. In October, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) detected traces of poison from the Novichok group in Navalny’s tests. it became bad, they were taken away , they said it was confirmed - on December 14, 2020, an investigation was published by a group of journalists from publications, both with the participation and founded by politician Alexei Navalny. Investigators found that a group of FSB officers with medical training had been monitoring Navalny since 2017, and that security forces tried at least three times to poison Navalny with a nerve agent from the Novichok group. The Investigative Committee will check the actions of the FSB officers whom Navalny accused of poisoning. Bellingcat The Insider CNN Der Spiegel Anti-Corruption Foundation refused - December 21 Alexey Navalny video in which he claims that he spoke on the phone with a participant in his poisoning, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, introducing himself as assistant to Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev. During the conversation, the interlocutor told Navalny the details of the assassination attempt. published - On January 11, the Federal Penitentiary Service replaced Navalny’s suspended sentence assigned in the Yves Rocher case with a real one. The next day he will fly to Russia on January 17th. Soon the FSIN announced its intention to detain Navalny “while establishing his whereabouts.” demanded declared declared