EU calls on Russian authorities to release the detained on Saturday peaceful demonstrators, journalists and the initiator of the protest Oleksiy Navalnyi.

Spokesperson of state department of the US claimed that ‘US reproves the detention of peaceful demonstrators and urges to set them free’.

At the same time, Oleksiy Navalnyi was released on 6 May.

On 5 May hundreds of thousands of people around Russia went on streets to protest against Putin. The name of the protesting action was “He is not our king”. Then, the police detained almost 1500 activists.