The Carriage is Served

The rally in support of Alexei Navalny was initially called for in the center of Moscow on Lubyanskaya Square but the authorities blocked all approaches to it Then some of the demonstrators went to the Matrosskaya Tishina pretrial detention center where Navalny was The police hunted them cutting off individual groups and using force Over one and a half thousand people were detained Two days later on February 2 the court changed Navalnys suspended sentence to a real one two years and eight months in prison On the same evening new protests began