Chronicle of current events

May 13–17

Activist of the Left Front Vladimir Akimenkov during the next extension of the arrest in the Basmanny Court

May 14, Tuesday

Investigators from Moscow with their colleagues from the regions conducted searches with activists of the RPR-Parnas, RSD, Left Front, another Russia in Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod and Belgorod. The IC of the Russian Federation said that searches are related to the investigation of the “swamp business” and with the fact that Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvoszhaev in the spring and summer of 2012 held meetings with local activists in these cities.

May 15, Wednesday

According to the newspaper Vedomosti, foreign charitable and scientific funds cooperating with Russian researchers and scientific institutions will have to undergo an examination of the Ministry of Education and Science. A similar requirement is contained in the government decree. Previously, scientific organizations were withdrawn from the action of the Law "On Foreign Agents".

Dmitry Komnov, the former head of the Butyrka pre-trial detention center, defendant in the official “Magnitsky List”, became the head of the SIZO-3 Presnya. After the death of Magnitsky, he was dismissed, but he was soon appointed deputy chief of the SIZO-4. Now he received an increase in service.

May 16, Thursday

In the Moscow apartment of a member of the Constitutional Council of the opposition Rustem Adagamov, in the apartment of his wives, searches were held as part of the investigation of the case of pedophilia. The next day, employees of the EE center searched the apartment of the 77-year-old mother of Adagamov. Rustem Adagamov himself in February went to the Czech Republic.

The Moscow City Court partially satisfied the appeal of the “Prisoner of Bolotnaya” by Vladimir Akimenkov, recognizing his arrest by July 6 unreasonable. Akimenkov will remain in custody until June 10, if by this time the “swamp case” will not be transferred to the Prosecutor General to the court and they will not extend the term of detention. This is the first decision when the court sided with the "prisoners of Bolotnaya."

May 17, Friday

Anatoly Navalny, the father of Alexei and Oleg Navalny, was called for interrogation to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation by e -mail. In what case the interrogation should take place, is not reported. In August and December 2012, searches were held at the Kobyakovsky Lozoling Factory belonging to the parents of Alexei Navalny.

Maria Alekhina wrote a letter to the chairmen of the Perm Regional and Bereznikovsky City Court, as well as the head of the GUFSIN in the Perm Territory. Alekhina reports that he will begin a hunger strike if she is not transferred to a meeting of the Bereznikovsky city court, where on May 22 her petition for UDO will be considered.

Photo: Dmitry Lebedev/Kommersant