Three people, including a top aide to Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, were released from custody after being arrested as thousands of people protested in central Moscow for a second day against a controversial plan to raise the retirement age.
Sergei Boiko, chair of Navalny’s Russian Libertarian Party, wrote on Twitter that he had been released after an “administrative offense protocol” had been filed against him and that a hearing had been set for August 2.
