The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow did not receive information about identifying the participants in the attack on Alexei Navalny with brilliant green, the head of the department’s press service, Alexander Knyazev, said in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station. Knyazev refused further comments and advised to contact the duty officer; he said that he also did not have information on this matter.

Deputy Secretary of the General Council of United Russia, State Duma deputy Evgeny Revenko called for a thorough investigation of attacks on oppositionists and public activists, he wrote about this on Facebook. According to him, such attacks impede the development of civil society. “I certainly condemn and do not accept any such violence and hooligan behavior.

Twitter user Mr Radmir identified Alexander Petrunko, a member of the pro-Kremlin SERB movement, in the video recording of the attack on opposition leader Alexei Navalny. He posted a detailed comparison of video frames and photos on Telegra.ph. “I immediately recognized the person with the video as Alexander Petrunko, a member of SERB. Best known as the man with the urine jar in the Jock Sturges exhibition.

An ally of oppositionist Alexei Navalny, Leonid Volkov, said that the server of the REN TV channel stores four versions of the video with the attack on Navalny. about this He wrote on Twitter. According to Volkov, all the videos have varying degrees of blurring of faces. The video captured the face of a running man who could have thrown liquid in Navalny’s face, but it was blurred. The camera also films a man standing not far from Navalny.

Teacher Evgenia Chudnovets, convicted of reposting, condemned the last word of blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky on her Facebook. Chudnovets accused Sokolovsky of cowardice.

In Moscow, 12 vegans were detained at a May Day march, OVD-info reports , citing one of the detainees, a member of the Left Bloc, Vladimir Zhuravlev. According to Zhuravlev, they were placed on a bus. Updated at 14:30: Zhuravlev told Mediazona that they were detained because someone allegedly unfurled a rainbow flag in a column of vegans. The detainees are taken to the Basmanny police station.

In St. Petersburg, several LGBT activists were detained on Nevsky Prospekt, Fontanka reports . According to the publication, activists were detained between Marat Street and Lithuania near the Pervomaisky column of feminists and feminists, to which part of the city’s LGBT community joined. Two activists held a rainbow flag and chanted the slogan "Kadyrov to the Hague." The police detained several people, they were put in two service cars and taken away.

The head of the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party, Sergei Mitrokhin, said that he intends to seek the transfer of the case of the attack on party activist Natalya Fedorova for investigation by the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moscow. As Mitrokhin told Mediazona, he has no confidence in the Cheryomushki police department, where the case of the attack on Fedorova is currently being investigated.

Court of St. Petersburg, the hearing on the case of human rights activist Dinar Idrisov lasted until five o’clock in the morning on May 1 reports , MR7.ru. In the Krasnogvardeisky District Idrisov was detained for filming violations during the preparation of administrative protocols at the “Fed up” protest; he was taken to police department No. 22.

An Open Russia activist detained in Kazan was arrested for ten days, RBC reports with reference to her lawyer Elsa Nisanbekova. At the rally, Kulakova collected appeals to President Vladimir Putin with a request not to run for a second term. National Guard officers detained her towards the end of the protest. Later, another activist, Laysan Ismagilova, was detained.