In several cities, local authorities refuse to coordinate rallies in support of Navalny

Kirov activist Vadim Ananyin was denied approval for a single picket with a prefabricated structure in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23 near the city hall. He reported this on his Telegram channel.

He also added that Mikhail Semenov was denied approval for a picket for 10 people there. In the first case, city hall employees referred to the technical work planned that day, in the second - to restrictions due to the coronavirus epidemic.

13:10 Tyumen activist Yuri Ryabtsev reported the refusal to approve a single picket with a prefabricated structure. The administration cited coronavirus restrictions and proposed postponing the event to a later and safer period.

16:36 The Moscow City Hall refused to approve the Libertarian Party’s rally in support of Navalny on Sakharov Avenue. The party announced this on Twitter.

The action was planned to take place on January 30. In the application, party representatives indicated the estimated number of participants - 100 thousand. The city authorities said that due to the decree of Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on the introduction of quarantine measures, it was impossible to coordinate the rally.

The news title has been changed due to the emergence of information about new failures

• On January 18, 2021, the court, sitting in the police department building in Khimki near Moscow, sent Alexei Navalny into custody for 30 days. Throughout the day, Navalny’s supporters were detained in different cities. A total of 73 people were detained. The day before, about 70 people were detained in connection with Navalny’s return to Russia from Germany.

• Alexei Navalny underwent a long course of treatment and rehabilitation in Germany after he became ill on August 20 on a plane flying from Tomsk to Moscow. The politician was taken from Russia to the German Charité clinic, where he underwent rehabilitation. Representatives of the clinic and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) announced the presence of traces of poison from the Novichok group in Navalny’s tests.

• In 2020, the Kirov administration did not coordinate a rally in memory of the murdered Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya, scheduled for October 7. In July 2020, for similar reasons, the city administration did not approve a rally against changes to the Constitution and the usurpation of power.