
Caucasian Knot: Oppositionist Alexei Navalny is kept in colony in torturous conditions, Volgograd solo picketers assert. The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that on March 31, activists of the “Strategy-31” campaign, Vladimir Vasilchenko, Vladimir Vasikovsky and Galina Tikhenko held solo pickets in Volgograd, where they called for observing the norms of the Constitution and demanded the release of Alexei Navalny. On April 3, the activists, Tamara Grodnikova, Galina Tikhenko, Elena Sheina and Vladimir Vasikovsky took to solo pickets with posters reading “Freedom and treatment for Navalny!” and “They are killing Navalny – they are killing us! Freedom for Alexei Navalny! Don’t be silent!”