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The authorities decided to stop clinging to trifles. Until now, in relation to the coordinator of the “Left Front” Sergei Udaltsov, they were limited to a continuous stream of falsified administrative cases and corresponding arrests. Now, after checking the information reported in the scandalous NTV film “Anatomy of Protest-2”, the Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case under the article on preparation for organizing mass riots. The film reported, in particular, that Udaltsov allegedly negotiated support for the opposition with representatives of the Georgian authorities and was preparing a riot with the seizure of the Ivan the Great bell tower. The official representative of the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, said that those who “believed that in our country it is possible to organize mass unrest, plan and prepare terrorist attacks and other actions that threaten the life and health of Russians with absolute impunity, you underestimate the professionalism of the Russian special services and are unfamiliar with with Russian legislation, in particular, with the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which provides for punishment for such acts up to life imprisonment.” “And this applies not only to persons who have Russian citizenship, but also to citizens of Georgia and other states already known to us. As soon as their involvement in the preparation of criminal acts is established, they will also be prosecuted in accordance with the laws of the Russian Federation and international law, put on the international wanted list and sooner or later brought before Russian justice,” Interfax quotes him as saying. . Udaltsov and other oppositionists accused in the same case - Leonid Razvozzhaev, an assistant to the deputy from A Just Russia Ilya Ponomarev, and Konstantin Lebedev, an activist of the RCRP-RPK - have already been searched. The report of the Investigative Committee also mentions certain other persons against whom a criminal case has also been initiated.

Later it became known that the special forces that arrived at Udaltsov’s place took him out of the house and took him for questioning to the Investigative Committee. Konstantin Lebedev was detained for 48 hours. During the search, hunting cartridges were found on him. A message appeared on Udaltsov’s Twitter, apparently written by his wife Anastasia: “Sergei sent an SMS: “Hold on, drive the wave as much as possible. I’m being closed.”

Meanwhile, the Prosecutor General's Office opened a fraud case in connection with the alleged theft of funds contributed by citizens to participate in elections to the Coordination Council of the Opposition (Udaltsov is also a candidate for the Constitutional Court). According to RIA Novosti, several citizens contacted the prosecutor's office, among whom they allegedly collected ten thousand rubles under the pretext of voluntary contributions to participate in the elections.

By the evening it became known that Udaltsov was released on his own recognizance.