Chronicle of current events

August 5-9

Mikhail Khodorkovsky communicates with the Supreme Court of Video from IK-7 City of Segezhi

August 6, Tuesday

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation considered the supervisory complaint of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev to the second sentence in the Yukos case and reduced the deadline by two months. Lebedev should be released in May 2014, Khodorkovsky in August 2014.

On Manezhnaya Square in Moscow, an action took place in support of the "swamp prisoners". 100 people participated in it.

A picket in defense of the teacher Ilya Farber, sentenced to seven years in a maximum security colony, allegedly for a bribe, was held on a passionate boulevard in Moscow. Supporting Farber came 100 people.

August 7, Wednesday

The British writer and actor Stephen Fry called members of the International Olympic Committee and Prime Minister of Great Britain David Cameron to the boycott of the Olympics in Sochi in 2014 due to violation of homosexual rights in Russia. “The absolute boycott of the Winter Olympic Games 2014 in Sochi is simply necessary. <...> At all costs it is necessary to make sure that Putin approves the entire civilized world, ”the writer said.

The defendant “Pussy Riot case” Maria Alekhin was transferred from the Perm Territory to the Nizhny Novgorod colony IK-2. It already contains another political prisoner - activist of another Russia Olga Shalin.

The TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak was questioned in the RF IC in a criminal case of insult, which was initiated at the request of the deputy of United Russia Elena Mizulina. LGBT activist Nikolai Alekseev, the former head of the luxury of Alfred Koch, journalists Olga Bakushinskaya and Elena Kostyuchenko were also called for interrogation.

August 9, Friday

The Interregional Human Rights Association “Agora” asks for Moscow prosecutor Sergei Kudeneev to conduct a check on the facts of the beatings of the defendants with employees of the convoy services in the building of the Moscow City Court. Over the past year and a half, lawyers and human rights activists have recorded more than ten similar cases.

Photo: Mikhail Metzel/ITAR-TASS