--- description: A leading protest figure in Russia's beleaguered opposition camp defied the terms of his house arrest on Monday, announcing that he had severed a tracking device that he was ordered to wear by a Russian court. title: Putin Critic Protests House Arrest By Cutting Off Tracking Bracelet image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0eb04cf6c5a0dd17/6987782606f2c1f90d333341/460906102.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [russia](/tag/russia/) ## russia Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Putin Critic Protests House Arrest By Cutting Off Tracking Bracelet  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 5, 2015 7:23 PM CUT  Russian anti-Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny speaks as he attends the verdict announcement of his fraud trial at a court in Moscow on December 30, 2014. Russian anti-Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny speaks as he attends the verdict announcement of his fraud trial at a court in Moscow on December 30, 2014.Dmitry Serebryakov—AFP/Getty Images  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 5, 2015 7:23 PM CUT A leading protest figure in Russia’s beleaguered opposition camp defied the terms of his house arrest on Monday, announcing that he had severed a tracking device that he was ordered to wear by a Russian court. Alexei Navalny posted a picture of a severed bracelet on his blog, Reuters [reports](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/05/us-russia-crisis-navalny-idUSKBN0KE14S20150105 "undefined"). “I refuse to comply with the requirements of my illegal detention under house arrest,” Navalny wrote on the blog, which draws up to 1 million readers a month. “The bracelet with some effort has been cut off with kitchen scissors.” Navalny was handed a suspended sentence in late December on charges of embezzling 30 million rubles from two firms. Russian authorities [launched](http://world.time.com/2013/04/15/putins-public-enemy-number-one-a-visit-with-alexei-navalny/ "undefined") an investigation against Navalny in 2010, shortly after he exposed evidence of corruption in Russia’s state-owned corporation amounting to $4 billion in fraudulent payments. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3654077/alexei-navalny-vladimir-putin-house-arrest-tracking-bracelet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3654077/alexei-navalny-vladimir-putin-house-arrest-tracking-bracelet/"},"headline":"Putin Critic Protests House Arrest By Cutting Off Tracking Bracelet","datePublished":"2015-01-05T19:23:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:17:15.009Z","description":"\"The bracelet with some effort has been cut off with kitchen scissors\"","url":"https://time.com/3654077/alexei-navalny-vladimir-putin-house-arrest-tracking-bracelet/","keywords":["russia","corruption","Vladimir Putin"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0eb04cf6c5a0dd17/6987782606f2c1f90d333341/460906102.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Kedmey","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0eb04cf6c5a0dd17/6987782606f2c1f90d333341/460906102.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"RUSSIA-POLITICS-JUSTICE-NAVALNY-VERDICT","caption":"RUSSIA-POLITICS-JUSTICE-NAVALNY-VERDICT","creditText":"Dmitry Serebryakov—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/russia/","name":"russia"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3654077/alexei-navalny-vladimir-putin-house-arrest-tracking-bracelet/","name":"Putin Critic Protests House Arrest By Cutting Off Tracking Bracelet"}}]}] ```