On Friday, lawyers for the applicants had sought to adjournthecase, claiming they needed more time to rebut new information supplied to them at the last minute.
Dressed in a white shirt and jeans, Mr Navalny told the court he fully backed the proposal to adjournthecase, complaining that it was far from his home in Moscow.
Navalny's lawyer, Olga Mikhailova, asked the court in her opening remarks to adjournthe trial for a month because her client was not given enough time to read thecase files.