Environmental activist and leader of the Khimki forest defenders Yevgenia Chirikova, right, and Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny, center, meet supporters in Khimki, outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012. Chirikova is now running for mayor of Khimki which, thanks largely to her efforts, became one of the first battlegrounds of the anti-Kremlin protests and Navalny arrived to support her.
Mikhail Metzel Associated Press