And I will reach the Urals

In Chelyabinsk, six local opposition activists were summoned for questioning by the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee. They will be interrogated as witnesses about the visit to the city of Left Front coordinator Sergei Udaltsov, who is currently under house arrest in the case of organizing the alleged mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012.

Udaltsov visited Chelyabinsk on August 31, 2012, together with Duma deputy from A Just Russia Ilya Ponomarev and Secretary of the Federal Political Council of Solidarity Mikhail Shneider as part of the White Stream opposition rally.

Investigator Dmitry Gorelov, who is part of the extended group working on the Bolotnaya case, spoke with the activists.

After a similar visit by investigators in the “Bolotnaya Case” to Ivanovo, a new accused appeared in the case - the head of the local branch of the Left Front, Dmitry Rukavishnikov.

In addition, as RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Investigative Committee, searches as part of the “Bolotnaya case” took place in Yekaterinburg and Perm, also in connection with the visit of Udaltsov, as well as activist Leonid Razvozzhaev, who is also under arrest on charges of organizing all the same so-called mass riots, and “other persons acting on the instructions of Givi Targamadze,” a Georgian politician whom the Russian authorities consider the main organizer of these very so-called ones.

According to the Investigative Committee, “the documents seized during the searches, as well as the testimony of interrogated persons, confirm that the main purpose of these meetings was to persuade as many people as possible to participate in opposition actions, during which it was planned to organize mass unrest.”

These meetings took place after the events of May 6, 2012 - in late spring and summer. But the Investigative Committee, when talking about Udaltsov, is not limited to the events on Bolotnaya Square. Actually, the case against him at first generally concerned some kind of mass unrest that he was planning (however, from a legal point of view, there were none at Bolotnaya).