A participant in a rally in support of Navalny was detained in Saransk. She's already been released

In Saransk, Anastasia Rodionova, a participant in the rally in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23, was detained at work. The girl has already been released, she reported to the OVD-Info hotline.

“I came to work, the director came up to me, told me to get dressed and go downstairs to the office, because the FSB had come to see me. The man who was sitting in the office was not dressed in uniform, he put me in the car and drove me away. He didn’t tell me his name,” says Rodionova.

The girl was taken to the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Kochkurovskaya Street. There, a protocol was drawn up against her regarding her participation in an uncoordinated action that interfered with the movement of pedestrians and transport (Part 6.1 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). This article is an arrest article, which means that the police can leave a person in the department overnight before the trial, but in the case of Rodionova they were obliged to let her go, since she has a young child.

• In connection with the detention and subsequent arrest of Alexei Navalny, a series of protests took place throughout Russia. The largest protests took place on Saturday, January 23, and Sunday, January 31. Security forces reacted harshly to the protests: on January 23, more than 4,000 people were detained, and on January 31, more than 5,500 . About 300 people came to the rally on January 23 in Saransk, and at least five people were detained that day.