The reason for such actions was the investigation of the Anti-Corruption Foundation Alexei Navalny about the "secret empire" of Dmitry Medvedev. According to Russian media, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Alexander Gorovoy said that the police are not responsible for the "possible negative consequences" of mass actions, since they were not coordinated with the authorities.

At the same time, the first detentions have already begun.

According to eyewitnesses who tell about the events in the social network, police near the "Belorusskaya" metro station arrested about ten people.

In the center of Moscow, the OMON began to push people away from Pushkin Square. Here in the course went batons and pepper gas. Immediately the police detain people. About 200 fighters of OMON are pulled to the square, they squeeze people. In total, the police detained about 40-50 people, - eyewitnesses report..

Recall, As reported URA-Inform, such actions today in Russia were planned in a hundred cities.