Economists from HSE are convinced that the state is not well fulfilling budget obligations. At the same time, ordinary citizens stopped receiving oil and gas rent. Russian elites control budget expenses, the equivalent of which is more than 15 percent of the country's GDP. This is stated in the report of Natalia Akindinova, director of the Institute "Center for Development" at the Higher School of Economics (HSE).

Law enforcement officers in Sochi detained an activist who was holding a single picket with a poster “We demand that Navalny be allowed to participate in the elections.” The reason for the arrest was a bicycle, which police officers immediately identified as “listed as stolen.” “Our single picketer was taken away along with his bicycle under the pretext that the bicycle was listed as stolen. They will escort you to the central police department,” the Navalny Team|Sochi group reported .

Dmitry Titkov, who today, October 7, stood for two hours at a single picket in support of Alexei Navalny, was attacked by a group of provocateurs. The oppositionist himself told Kavkaz.Realii about this. “Six bearded and muscular guys ran up to me. They tore the poster and then started threatening me. Then they ran up to the girl who started filming what was happening and broke her phone,” he said. After the incident, Titkov was tied up by the police and taken to the car.

Iran would like to reduce tension in relations with Western partners, official Iranian and Western representatives told Reuters. In Tehran, they express their readiness for negotiations about the Iranian arsenal of ballistic missiles. The Iranian authorities have previously repeatedly announced the readiness to strengthen their defense missile potential. In Washington, however, these intentions were called by violation of multilateral agreements reached by Tehran in negotiations with six powers.

The Krasnodar coordinator of Open Russia, Yana Antonov, was accused of violating the procedure for holding an action for trying to hang a banner on a bridge in honor of Vladimir Putin’s birthday. The banner that the activists were going to place The activist was going to hang up a banner, telling “Voice of Kuban” that for Putin this is “a postcard from everyone who pays backbreaking loans, who has had their wages dropped, who is having a hard time now.

This morning, Yana Antonova, coordinator of the Kuban branch of Open Russia, was detained in Krasnodar. Activist Pavel Suganeev was detained along with Antonova. Both of them are now at the police department on Vorovskogo Street. Anna Mitrenko reported this to the Voice of Kuban. Activist Alexei Mandrigela said that the detainees were taken to the police department for questioning. Lawyer Mikhail Benyash is heading towards them.

The names of 20 detainees are precisely known. In total, about 30 people have already been detained. In the Kuban capital, mass and chaotic detentions began, including with the use of brute physical force, of participants in the rally in support of Navalny.

The Russian government approved the bill on a four -fold increase in fines for non -payment of the collection from high -loading drivers through the Plato system. A document published on Friday sets an amount of 20 thousand rubles. Since April 15 of this year, an additional increase in the factor in the Plato system has been introduced in Russia: drivers will have to pay extra for every kilometer of transportation.

In Sochi on October 7, unknown people hung a huge banner with the inscription “Freedom for Navalny.” “Unknown well-wishers, so to speak, hung a ten-meter banner on the federal highway overpass above the Khosta station and, accordingly, Hyde Park. Exactly where the event on October 7 was banned,” says Sochi lawyer Mikhail Benyash, who noticed the poster and published photos on social networks.

In various cities of Russia, several activists were detained at once, who called for participation in rallies in support of Alexei Navalny. The police conduct searches in the regional headquarters of a politician. In the Russian regions, several supporters of Alexei Navalny were detained, who called for a protest on October 7. So, on the night of Saturday, October 7, Andrei Prokudin and local volunteer Marf Aksenov were detained by Navalny’s headquarters in Tver.