According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, law enforcement agencies received information that the heads of Navalny's regional headquarters received from associates, in particular Ivan Zhdanov and Leonid Volkov, instructions to involve young people, including minors, in unauthorized actions in the regions, “according to available data, by disseminating among them knowingly false information. "

“The chiefs of staff are involved in organizing provocations and violent actions.

Attention is focused on broad coverage of these actions in social media with further replication in opposition and foreign media, ”the ministry said.

The profile division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs initiated a pre-investigation check.

Earlier, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the fact of appeals circulated in social networks to minors to participate in the illegal action on January 23.

Also, the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia issued repeated warnings to the leadership of Russian and foreign Internet companies in connection with the dissemination of calls on social networks to participate in illegal mass events on January 23.