For the first time, the authorities refused to approve a rally due to the fact that
that the applicants were subject to administrative liability.

Against the background of the scandalous increase in fines for violations during rallies and processions, another discriminatory innovation of the authorities appeared somewhat in the shadow - now the organizer of a mass event cannot be a citizen who has been brought to administrative responsibility 2 or more times during the year under Articles 5.38, 19.3, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.18, 20.29 Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (Article 5 of Federal Law No. 54). As Sergei Udaltsov, coordinator of the Left Front movement, said, on Monday, June 25, representatives of the Left Front were refused approval for a protest rally against Russia’s accession to the WTO without holding a referendum on this issue. The rally was scheduled for July 1 on Revolution Square, but the deputy head of the Department of Regional Security of the Moscow Government, S. Dobrorodny, indicated in his response that the applicants of the rally were repeatedly brought to administrative responsibility, so the action could not be approved. Thus, knowing how our “independent” courts love to stamp illegal charges in “political” cases, we can state that a significant part of opposition activists are now deprived of the opportunity to announce mass events. Let us note that representatives of the Left Front intend to file a complaint with the Constitutional Court. And the events regarding Russia’s accession to the WTO will take place in any case, only in a different format. Follow the information.

The authorities refused to approve the rally