In the case of Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov, debate has already begun. Before this, witnesses were heard, and the judge of the Leninsky Court of the Kirov Region, Sergei Blinov, refused to question almost all defense witnesses, except for those who came to court themselves. Later, he refused to conduct a forensic financial examination, which Navalny considered a sign that the judge, as he put it, had already been given a flash drive with the verdict.