Chronicle of current events

April 8–12

Law enforcement officers carry out documents and system blocks seized during searches in the office of the City without drugs Foundation
April 9, Tuesday
The website of the Ministry of Justice of Russia posted a report of the department, which states that after a series of verification measures, about 9 thousand applications for the liquidation or termination of the NPO are sent to the courts. In addition, 45 thousand warnings were issued in relation to NPOs and 21 organizations were suspended.
April 10, Wednesday
Russian activists Alexei Devyatkin and Jenny Kurpen informed the media that on April 1, they received a refusal to provide them with refugee status from the Migration Service of Ukraine. They left Russia shortly after the events on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, fearing that they could be delayed in the “swamp business”. At the same time, neither Devyatkin nor Kurpen participated in the action in Bolotnaya.
In Volgograd, searches were carried out as part of the investigation of the “Swamp business”. Law enforcement officers came to the activist of the Left Front Nikolai Chernyavsky, to Ruslan Alekseev, assistant to the deputy Ilya Ponomarev, as well as to the participant in the “Fair Elections” movement Oleg Denisov. Volgograd activists associate searches with the arrival of Ilya Ponomarev and Sergey Udaltsov last summer in the summer of last year.
April 11, Thursday
Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow extended for three months the arrest of the defendant of the “Swamp business” Mikhail Kosenko. At the court session, it became known that the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs abandoned the material claim against Kosenko in the amount of 371 thousand rubles due to the fact that “another person undergoing the case has already compensated for the damage,” said Tatyana Kolmakova, a representative of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Representatives of more than fifty Moscow and regional NPOs turned to President Vladimir Putin with a request to publish data on 654 NPOs, which, according to the head of state, received almost $ 1 billion for their activities from foreign funds in four months.
April 12, Friday
In Yekaterinburg, searches are being held in the office of the city without drugs. Searches are also held in the apartment of the fund programmer. They are associated with a criminal case against the vice president of the Foundation Evgeny Malenkin, who is accused of illegally deprivation of the freedom of nine patients.

Photo: RIA Novosti