More than 100 thousand people have left on the site "Freedom to Navalny!" their applications for participation in protests, which all over Russia are going to organize associates of the politician Alexei Navalny, who was sent to a colony.
As noted by Navalny's headquarters in Omsk, the mark of 100 thousand was overcome in seven hours after the announcement of the action. At the time of publication of the note, the site received over 105 thousand applications.
On March 23, Navalny's associates announced the launch of the "Free Navalny!" campaign. and preparations for a mass rally, which they say will be "a fundamentally different rally that everyone will know about."
- On February 2, the Simonovsky Court of Moscow sent Alexei Navalny to a colony, satisfying the petition of the Federal Penitentiary Service, which demanded that he replace the suspended sentence imposed in the Yves Rocher case with a real one. The politician will have to spend approximately two and a half years in prison. Navalny will serve his term in IK-2 in Pokrov in the Vladimir region.
- On January 23, the first of a series of actions in support of Alexei Navalny, who was detained after returning from Germany, took place in more than 100 Russian cities. Also, actions for Navalny took place on January 31, February 2 and 14. According to human rights activists, about 11,000 people were detained in connection with the protests across the country, and 90 criminal cases were opened.