Let him go! - Navalny activists defy bitter Russian cold
By Anastasia Golubeva & Sergei Goryashko
BBC Russian
image captionCouncillor Antonina Stetsenko demands Navalny s release outside Khimki police station Let him go! , Russia will be free! , Lyosha, we are with you! chanted hundreds of Alexei Navalny s supporters, who turned up outside a Moscow police station on Monday, despite the -20C cold.
They were mostly students, young professionals and NGO activists. Lyosha is the familiar short form of Alexei.
The Khimki police station, on the northwestern edge of Moscow, was hastily converted into a courtroom to receive Russia s best-known opposition activist. A judge ordered that he stay in custody for at least 30 days.