
Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow fined 10 thousand rubles an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the President of the Moscow Mathematical Society, Viktor Vasiliev. This was reported by RAPSI with reference to the press secretary of the court Olga Bagrov. Vasiliev was found guilty of an administrative offense under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the established procedure for organizing or conducting a rally).
On February 21, Vasiliev was detained by the building of the Zamoskvoretsky court during the start of the sentence in the "Bolotnaya case". A protocol on an administrative offense was drawn up on it.
On February 22, the public control commission and the results of reforms in the field of science made an appeal . "We are outraged by the non -provoked detentions of more than 200 people on February 21 near the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow, including our colleagues, president of the Moscow Mathematical Society, academician V. A. Vasiliev, a researcher, a member of the commission, G. A. Kolyutsky and journalist S. B. Parkhomenko, who did a lot to combat abuse in Russian science, - we wrote scientists." We demand a fair judicial judicial The proceedings and punishment of the police who exceeded their powers and violated the law on the police. "
On February 21, the judge of the Zamoskvoretsky court Natalia Nikishina began to read out the verdict by the eight defendants in the "Swamp case". The court gathered more than a thousand people. Activists chanted "Freedom!", Meded white pigeons and raised posters in support of the "swamp prisoners." More than 200 people were detained.
On February 24, after the conviction, the eight "swamps" in Moscow took place the most massive detentions after May 6, 2012. Several thousand people went to Tverskaya in support of the political prisoners, 430 were in autozaks ( 



The next day, the Human Rights Council sent an appeal to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev with a request to carefully investigate mass detentions near the Zamoskvoretsky court and on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow on February 21 and 24. The Council demands to "attract employees who have committed violations of citizens' rights to proper responsibility."
For mass detentions, there were no legal grounds, and police officers chose people "completely arbitrarily" during the detention, according to the HRC. "At the same time, they tried to provoke the detainees to response, expression of indignation and protest, in order to charge them under Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (disobedience to the legal order of a police officer)," the message said.