Police
arrested two of the main allies of jailed Russian opponent Alexiei Navalny in Moscow
: spokeswoman Kira Yarmish and anti-corruption fund lawyer Liubov Sobol.
The
online newspaper Meduza reports the
arrest of
Sobol,
citing the lawyer Vladimir Voronin, according to which the dissident was taken away by a taxi near the Avtozavodskaya metro station.
MediaZona
reports on the
arrest of
Yarmish,
quoting the lawyer Veronika Poliakova.
Mass demonstrations against Navalny's detention are scheduled today.
According to the NGO Ovd-Info, the police conducted searches and made arrests in at least 20 Russian cities.
The people arrested for protests against the detention of Putin's number one rival, Alexey Navalny, are
currently 44 in 23 cities in Russia
: the NGO Ovd-Info always reports on its website, specifying that "many have already been detained. before the event ".
