Chronicle of current events

September 24, 2012
The Basmanny Court of Moscow extended until November 6 the arrest of Alexei Polikhovich and Nikolai Kavkazsky, accused in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya on May 6.

The chairman of the Society for the Protection of Consumer Rights appealed to the church court, demanding that Patriarch Kirill be excommunicated from the Church.

September 25, 2012 The State Duma adopted in the first reading the law "On social patronage", which will allow taking children away from any parents. If the child protection inspectors consider that the parents "hinder the normal upbringing of the child", they will file a complaint with the court, and the court has the right to decide on the establishment of social patronage, and in the future - on the removal of the child from the family.

September 26, 2012 A draft law was submitted to the State Duma, which provides for criminal liability for insulting the feelings of believers. Punishment - from 500 thousand rubles fine to five years in prison.

On September 27, 2012, the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation adopted a resolution according to which police officers have the right to use force when detaining citizens at rallies.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is preparing a tough resolution on human rights violations in Russia. State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin, who was supposed to speak at the PACE session in Strasbourg on October 1, refused to go there.

A series of searches took place in the editorial office of the news agency URA.RU and in the apartments of its employees in Yekaterinburg. Journalists claim that this is due to critical publications on the agency's website. URA.RU accountant Natalya Popova was detained on suspicion of fraud.

On September 28, 2012, Righteous Russian Deputy Ilya Ponomarev was deprived of the right to vote for a month at a session of the State Duma for insulting remarks about United Russia, whom he called "crooks and thieves" as early as July 13, 2012, when discussing the law on libel.

* "Chronicle of Current Events" - a typewritten human rights information bulletin, distributed in samizdat in 1968-1983.