Chronicle of current events

August 12-16

Supporters of Alexei Navalny OMON detained in the apartment in pure ponds

August 12, Monday

The coordinator of the Left Front Alexei Sakhnin asked for political asylum in Sweden. The oppositionist explained his desire to leave Russia by what is in the so -called “operational list” of persons who should be arrested in the “swamp business”. On June 12 of last year, a search was conducted at Sakhnin’s house.

August 13, Tuesday

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation demands to take measures to lawyers the leader of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov - Yuri Volovelsky, Victoria Savchenko and Nikolai Polozov . All three, according to investigators, illegally convey to the media the texts recorded by them during meetings with Udaltsov.

Judge Natalya Nikishina allowed the defendant of the “swamp business” Alexander Dukhanina, who is under house arrest, to live with her husband. Previously, she was refused this request.

August 14, Wednesday

Two supporters of Alexei Navalny - Oleg Kozlovsky and Vasily Drovetsky - received 10 days of arrest for "disobedience to police officers." They were detained on Tuesday, August 13, in the apartment in pure ponds, which was rented by Drovets. In this apartment, at the request of the candidate for mayor Nikolai Levichv, a search was conducted. Two other activists, Roman Pereverzev and Kirill Andreev, who were then in the apartment, were sentenced to a fine of 1 thousand rubles.

August 15, Thursday

The children of Anna Politkovskaya - Vera Politkovskaya and Ilya Politkovsky - decided to take part in the trial in the case of the murder of their mother, who is now taking place in the Moscow City Court. Previously, they refused to be present in court due to the fact that contrary to their desire, Judge Pavel Melekhin took the jury and began hearing in the absence of the victim. In the process, Anna Stavitskaya, a Politkovsky lawyer, will also take part in the process.

August 16, Friday

The Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow recognized the refusal to initiate a criminal case on the fact of the beating of civil activist Viktor Zakharov on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012. Then Zakharov was placed in a Sokolnichesky hospital, where he was imposed on his head. The wound was received after a blow by a police club.

The same Zamoskvoretsky court sentenced the anti -fascist Igor Kharchenko to 3 years 6 months in a maximum security colony. According to investigators, in 2010, along with two unidentified persons, he allegedly beat two nationalists. The verdict is carried out on the basis of the testimony of the victims. Kharchenko left almost half the term in the pre -trial detention center.

Photo: Mikhail Sazonov