Yekaterinburg became the second city on Alexei Navalny’s 2017 autumn campaign tour and the site of one of the largest rallies of the entire trip. The authorities tried to obstruct the event until the very last moment: in the photographs, Alexei can be seen negotiating right on the street, next to the square where the rally was supposed to take place. The tour was part of Navalny’s presidential campaign: after opening regional campaign offices, he began holding large meetings with voters across Russia.
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