The action is timed in support of Aleksey Navalny, and is also aimed at Russians who are trying not to go to the presidential elections in March and not vote for the incumbent head of state. In Tomsk, the coordinator of the headquarters of Navalny. In Moscow, the police and security services have already blocked all approaches to the Tver. Sam Navalny refused to speak at Shchukino at the rally due to the likelihood of his arrest.

In all the cities where such actions are held by law enforcement officers are carrying out arrests of supporters of Navalny, 40 people were already detained. There are also detainees in Samara, Novosibirsk, Berezniki.

Also detained an employee of the Moscow office of the "Fund for Fighting Corruption", with whom Navalny supports active cooperation.

As reported in the "URA-Inform", earlier the Russian Supreme Court refused to Navalny in admission to the presidential elections.