In the morning, a man was detained at the memorial to the victims of political repression in Ukhta, who came to honor the memory of the politician, reported the channel «Komi politzeka». He managed to inform his wife that he was being taken to the police department for «identification».
In Novosibirsk, police detained six people who brought flowers in memory of Alexei Navalny to the monument to the victims of political repression, reported the project «OVD-Info»**. Before that, law enforcement asked for documents from other participants of the laying, recorded personal data for «database checks» and «searched for citizens of foreign states».
The detainees were taken to the Oktyabrsky district police department of Novosibirsk, according to the channel «Novosibirsk Coalition 2020», force was used against two activists by law enforcement.
As reported by SOTAvision**, when the number of people gathered at the monument began to increase, police started demanding dispersal. The reason given was allegedly creating obstacles to pedestrian movement in the park, disturbing public order, and posing a threat to infrastructure objects.
According to «7×7»**, police are also recording data from those laying flowers at the monument to the victims of political repression in Yoshkar-Ola.
In Yekaterinburg, the memorial «Mask of Sorrow» was closed, citing a «bomb threat», with two traffic police cars and one civilian car with a V symbol on the rear window on duty at the site. No one is allowed to the memorial, as reported by the SOTAvision correspondent, a family couple who came to lay flowers for their grandfather were told by police that the memorial was closed due to a bomb threat.
* Included in the list of «terrorists and extremists».
** Recognized in Russia as «foreign agents».
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