The Ministry of Internal Affairs began checking the incident in St. Petersburg, where a security officer kicked a woman

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs began checking the case in St. Petersburg, where, during the dispersal of a rally in support of Navalny, an OMON officer strongly kicked a woman, after which she was taken to the hospital. This was reported by the press service of the department.

“The results of the check will be transferred to the investigating authorities for a procedural decision,” the press service writes.

On the evening of January 23, on Vosstaniya Square, Margarita Yudina from St. Petersburg blocked the way for two OMON officers, trying to ask them why they were so rudely detaining a young man. To this, as can be seen from the Fontanka video, one of the security forces kicked her in the stomach, causing her to fall and hit her head on the asphalt.

According to the telegram channel Baza, after that the woman was taken to the Research Institute of Emergency Medicine named after. Dzhanelidze, where she was diagnosed with a concussion, a closed craniocerebral injury and a hematoma of the back of the head. On the morning of January 24, Baza wrote that Yudina had become worse, and she was in an unconscious state in intensive care.

At the same time, the publication "Rise" director of ambulance them. Janelidze Vadim Manukovsky said that "a woman feels great". There is no reliable information yet.

• On January 23, mass rallies were held throughout Russia in support of Alexei Navalny, who was arrested after returning from Berlin. In total, according to OVD-Info, as of the evening of January 23, 3,296 people were detained throughout Russia, and 489 in St. Petersburg. We kept online from detentions , published lists of detainees and summed up.