Fixing a bug

The Presnensky District Magistrate Court of Moscow sentenced one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, Mikhail Shneider, to three days of arrest. Like the head of the Human Rights movement, Lev Ponomarev, he was found guilty of disobeying the legal demands of police officers. Ponomarev and Schneider were accused of participating in an unauthorized march after an authorized rally on August 22 to mark Flag Day. Schneider stated at the trial that he did not participate in the procession. In addition, the policemen gave mutually contradictory testimony: as Kommersant writes, Major Mukha, who led the arrest, stated in court that Mr. Schneider led the column, and another policeman claimed that he was somewhere in the middle. At the same time, one of the leaders of Solidarity, Boris Nemtsov, was previously accused of the same thing, but the case was eventually sent for further investigation, which he regarded as a veiled justification. After this, in his opinion, the authorities fell into hysterics and ordered a guilty verdict against Ponomarev and Schneider.