On May 6, the Krasnodar Regional Court refused to satisfy the complaint of former police major Alexei Dymovsky. Dymovsky tried to protest the decision of the Primorsky District Court of Novorossiysk, which sentenced him to a fine of 100 thousand rubles and an apology to the head of the Novorossiysk Internal Affairs Directorate, Vladimir Chernositov, and the head of the Primorsky District Internal Affairs Directorate, Valery Medvedev, whom he allegedly slandered.
All-Russian fame came to Dymovsky when he made a video appeal via the Internet to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with a complaint about his superiors. During this time, Dymovsky was fired and put in a pre-trial detention center for more than a month. On March 23, he was sentenced to a fine. His defender Vadim Karastelev was also detained, in addition, he was attacked immediately after he left the police station.