Lyubov Sobol: The woman driving Russia's opposition protests
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"They ignored all our appeals so I have to fight in a more radical way", she says, in the central Moscow office where she is camped out. "I think a hunger strike is a means of applying pressure," Ms Sobol explains, a long-time ally of Russia's most prominent opposition figure, Alexei Navalny - who is currently in custody.
"This was mass unrest: pre-planned and well prepared," Moscow's mayor Sergei Sobyanin declared of the protest, in an awkward-looking television interview. Once a member of Russia's federal parliament, Mr Gudkov is now serving his first ever custodial sentence: 30 days for organising one of the unauthorised rallies. A similar charge for the 27 July event is still pending.
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