FBK lawyer Lyubov Sobol, who was detained in the center of Moscow before the start of a rally in support of Alexei Navalny, was released from the police station. She herself told Dozhd about this. Sobol was fined 20 thousand rubles under Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (violation of the rules for holding a rally by a participant).

Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS / Scanpix / Leta The protests on January 23 ended in a record number of detentions - more than three thousand people throughout Russia. For most detainees, it all ends with a fine or, in the worst case, administrative arrest. But some of the Russian cities entered the streets will obviously threaten criminal liability.

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Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP / Scanpix / Leta On January 23, promotions were held throughout Russia in support of Alexei Navalny - sent immediately after he returned to Russia from Germany, where he was treated after poisoning by poison from the Novice group. More than three thousand people were detained on shares.

More than 3,000 people have been detained at protests in support of politician Alexei Navalny across Russia. It is reported by "OVD-Info". At the time of this writing, 3,015 detainees are known. In Moscow, more than 1,100 people were detained, in St. Petersburg - more than 400 people. From 50 to 100 detainees - in Novosibirsk, Voronezh, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan and Khabarovsk. In total, there were detentions in more than a hundred settlements in Russia.

There have been no such mass shares in Russia for a very long time, and such mass detentions - never On January 23, tens of thousands of people in different cities of Russia reached the rallies "Freedom to Navalny!" There were no such mass actions in the country for a very long time (despite the fact that they took place without coordination with the authorities), and never of such mass detentions. Almost three thousand people were taken to the police. This is how we will remember this day.

A powerful performance of the regions, three thousand detainees (this is a record). And already more than 10 criminal cases Anton Basanaev / AP / Scanpix / Leta Police retains a rally participant in Yekaterinburg. January 23, 2021 In dozens of Russian cities on January 23, rallies were held in support of Alexei Navalny. He was detained 30 days after he returned to Russia from Germany, where he was treated after poisoning with poison from the Novice group.

The Investigative Committee opened several criminal cases after a rally in support of politician Alexei Navalny in Moscow. Cases were initiated under articles on the use of violence against a representative of power (318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), hooliganism (213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and intentional damage to property (167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg organized checks on the facts of "violations committed during unauthorized rallies." As noted in the message of the department, among other things, violations committed by police officers will be studied. Separately, the prosecutor's office noted that the episode "with the use of force against a woman" would be checked.

Promotion "Freedom to Navalny!" in Moscow - how did the specialists of the "Medusa" saw her, which spent all day on the streets of the capital On Saturday, January 23, protests were held throughout Russia, whose participants demanded to release the politician of Alexei Navalny from the investigative insulator and stop political repressions in the country.

The Russian Foreign Ministry accused the US Embassy in Moscow of interfering in Russia's internal affairs due to publications about the protests. The department said that the American diplomatic mission "does not for the first time demonstrate disregard for diplomatic norms" by supporting the protesters. In fact, we are talking about encouraging violent actions, hypocritically declared as peaceful protest, in which the organizers cynically involve even minors.

A total of 2,509 people were detained at protests in Russian cities. Such data is provided by OVD-Info. Children's Ombudsman Anna Kuznetsova, in turn, reported about 300 detained minors. Of these, about 70 were detained in Moscow, about 30 in St. Petersburg. Many of them, according to Kuznetsova, have already been allowed to go home. Initially, the OVD-Info report on which this article was based reported that 3,454 people had been detained.

Dmitry Parshin / Kommersant Promotion in support of Alexei Navalny in New York The protest on January 23 was held not only throughout Russia, but in many foreign countries, becoming essentially international. Abroad, participants, as a rule, went to Russian embassies and other diplomatic institutions. They gathered from several tens to several hundred (as in Prague) or even thousands of people (as in Tel Aviv).

The head of the Human Rights Council under the President of Russia, Valery Fadeev, said he did not see any violations in harsh detentions at protests. These shares are illegal. <...> Of course, we must talk about the illegality of the actions, and not about detentions. I don't see any violation at all. Is this the first arrests in our country? These are not the first uncoordinated rallies. Usually this ends with the fact that they draw up an act on an administrative offense and release it.

A rally in support of Alexei Navalny in Moscow has become a record number of protesters from all unsanctioned rallies in the city since 2013. This assessment was given by the coordinator of the project "White Counter" Dmitry Nesterov. According to Nesterov, 15,000 people took part in the action at the peak at three o'clock in the afternoon. At the same time, he did not rule out that more than 20 thousand took to the streets in just a day.