In Moscow, riot police detained opposition activist Mikhail Krieger, Sota reports . The detention took place in one of the Moscow cafes, the activist's relatives told the publication. “People in balaclavas arrived, put them on the floor, and took them away.” Where Krieger is being taken and for what, is unknown.
On July 28, in Moscow, Krieger was detained by the traffic police. His car was stopped because of the stickers on the windows with the words “I am against Putin. I am for Navalny" and "Navalny is my president."
Krieger is a former deputy of the Tagansky District Council of Moscow. Since the early 1990s, he has been engaged in political activism: pickets in defense of political prisoners, speaks out in support of the politician Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg, and is on duty on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge, where opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was killed. Since 2014, Krieger has been organizing rallies against the war in Ukraine. In 1991, during the August events, he and his wife Vera defended the White House.
