Navalny, in a makeshift courtroom just now at a police station near the airport, with one of his Putin epithets: “It seems that the grandpa in the bunker is so afraid of everything that they demonstratively ripped apart the code of criminal procedure and threw it in the trash.”
https://twitter.com/Kira_Yarmysh/status/1351106564011208705
Minutes earlier, Navalny's lawyer received this letter notifying him that his client's hearing was about to take place at the police station — not in a courtroom. Only pro-Kremlin media have been allowed inside.
https://twitter.com/advokatkobzev/status/1351100579356045313
Pictures from the "courtroom," via pro-Kremlin outlet Life News. 
An extraordinary scramble by the Russian authorities in their battle with Navalny: our first take from Moscow today, with @INechepurenko at the Khimki police station nytimes.com/2021/01/18/wor…
Navalny before the judge: “I demand that this procedure by as open as possible so that all media outlets have the possibility to observe the incredible absurdity of what is happening here.”
https://twitter.com/Kira_Yarmysh/status/1351116764915134467
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov today said Western politicians are talking about Navalny because they "think that they can thus distract attention from the global crisis in which the liberal model of development has ended up."
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Another video from Navalny, released just after he was jailed for at least 30 days, calls for protests: “Do not be afraid. Go into the streets. Don’t go out for me, go out for yourselves and for your future.”
In the makeshift police-station courtroom today, there was a black-and-white portrait just behind Navalny. It showed Genrikh Yagoda, once the head of Stalin’s secret police. nytimes.com/2021/01/18/wor…
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