In the center of Moscow, an action was held in support of Alexei Navalny. The rally participants gathered in Pushkinskaya Square and demanded that the politician for the 2018 presidential election. According to the OVD-Info, six people were detained. Many gathered held yellow ducks and Russian flags, the poster was also noticed "we will not leave without Navalny." The audience chanted: “Freedom to Navalny!”, “Russia will be free”, “Happy birthday” and “Putin is a guarantor of corruption”.

On Manezhnaya Square in Moscow, an action continued in support of Alexei Navalny. As journalist Denis Styazhkin said on Twitter, the audience chants “Freedom Navalny”. According to him, about a thousand people gathered in the square. https://twitter.com/styazshkin/status/91668902622599168 Earlier, the Moscow headquarters of Alexei Navalny said that the action had ended.

The court of the Leninsky district of the city of Smolensk decided to arrest Andrei Volobuev, head of the headquarters of Alexei Navalny in Smolensk for eight days, Interfax reports with reference to the headquarters of Navalny in Smolensk. Volobuev was arrested on charges of calling to the population to take part on October 7 in a public event not agreed with the Smolensk administration.

On October 7, rallies were held in the cities of Russia in support of the politician Alexei Navalny. In a number of cities, local authorities refused to coordinate shares, in particular, in Moscow and St. Petersburg . On the eve of many regional headquarters of Navalny, searches were held. The politician and the head of his election headquarters Alexei Volkov were previously arrested for 20 days on charges of preparing inconsistent shares.

The sports director of St. Petersburg Zenit Konstantin Sarsania died at the age of 49. This was reported on the website of the Zenit football club. The cause of death is not called. Sarsania was born on June 11, 1968 in Moscow, as a football player played in the USSR championship the first and second leagues, and also played in the Major League of France for the clubs Lance, Dunkerk and Armantier.

The vice-governor of St. Petersburg, Konstantin Serov, said that the city authorities could not let anyone in the Marse field at all, but decided to abandon the use of force. His words are given by Fontanka. According to the official, the city has enough strength and funds on the Neva both in order to prevent both the approach of activists to the rally place and for their detention at Marse. “But it was decided not to do this.

In St. Petersburg, on the Square of the uprising, where the action continues in support of the politician Alexei Navalny, the protesters began to throw glass bottles towards police officers. This was written by the correspondent of "Echo of Moscow" Arseny Vesnin. It is not specified whether it was done by the participants in the protest or provocateurs. Several glass bottles flew into the police, the police drive people but does not delay.

At least 262 people were detained on promotions in support of Alexei Navalny in 27 cities of Russia, ATS-Info reports . 66 people were detained in St. Petersburg , 54 people in Yaroslavl, 20 in Lipetsk. There are also detainees in Kaliningrad, Krasnodar, Moscow, Perm, Pskov, Saransk, Selyatin, Sochi, Stavropol, Tver, Tyumen, Yakutsk. One of the detainees in Krasnodar was already arrested for three days.

A protest action organized by the headquarters of Alexei Navalny was held in the center of Moscow. Its participants gathered on Pushkinskaya Square, and then with the slogans "Putin - thief!" We went for a walk along Tverskaya Street. Later, a large group of activists managed to break through the police cordons and on Manezhnaya Square. Despite the pouring rain, the action lasted several hours. According to the OVD-Info, six people were detained.

About 300 people gathered for promotions in St. Petersburg on the Marse Field, Medusa reports . The audience chanted “Navalny!”, “Putin - thief!” And "Putin - Grandfather!" “The song of the Lumen group“ Burn ”sang. Just surrealism. On the left of Catalonia, on the right of the Crimea, behind the blue whale. And in the midst of protest, the tractor drives. He removes the branches, ”the correspondent of the publication reports.

In the Moscow headquarters of Alexei Navalny, “Very well” was appreciated by an inconsistent protest action, which took place on Tverskaya Street. This was announced on the air of the Rain television channel by the head of the headquarters Nikolai Lyaskin. According to him, this was the largest inconsistent procession along Tverskaya Street, which passed without detention. “This is really very strange, amazing. Columns passed several times on Tverskaya Street, from different sides of Tverskaya.

On promotions in support of Alexei Navalny in 25 cities of Russia, 132 people were detained, the OVD-Info reports . 20 people were detained in Lipetsk, 14 in Yekaterinburg, 11 in Saratov. In Moscow and St. Petersburg, six detainees. There are also detainees in Kaliningrad, Krasnodar, Perm, Pskov, Rostov-on-Don , Saransk, Selyatin, Sochi, Stavropol, Tver, Tyumen, Yakutsk. All the detainees were released in Izhevsk, Nizhny Tagil, Samara, Saratov, Tula and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk .

In Yakutsk, the police beat a participant in an unauthorized action in support of Alexei Navalny, RBC reports with reference to the activist of the People’s Volya public movement Erela Vasiliev. According to him, in the second branch of the Yakutsk police, three police officers beat the student, after which he was taken, accompanied by the police, to the Republican Hospital No. 2. “They knocked out his teeth and broke his nose,” the activist said.

In the 89th year of his life, academician Vyacheslav Ivanov, Soviet and Russian linguist, Semiotik, anthropologist, died. This was reported on her Facebook by journalist Masha Slonim. “Terrible news! Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov died. (Coma), ”wrote Slonim. Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov - one of the founders of the Moscow School of Comparativeness. Professor of the department of Slavic and East European languages ​​and literature of the University of California.

The head of Yekaterinburg, Yevgeny Roizman, called on the authorities to allow Alexei Navalny to participate in the presidential election, so as not to "disgrace." “I believe that the authorities should allow the presidential candidate Alexei Navalny to the elections. At least in order not to disgrace, ”Roizman wrote on Twitter.