Execution through drowning

On July 24, the verdict will be announced to Sergey Udaltsov and Leonid Razvoszhaev. The accusation requires for them 8 years in a colony for organizing "riots" in Bolotnaya on May 6 and the preparation of the same performances during the Million Million on September 15, 2012.

At the process, which began in February, the former comrades were drowned by Konstantin Lebedev, previously sentenced in the same case to 2.5 years in a general regime colony. He spoke in detail in the court about the financial relations of the defendants of the Left Front and the Georgian parliamentarian Givi Targamadze, but he noted that they were preparing not riots, but a peaceful perpetual standing in the square with tents.

The testimonies of several dozen police officers who went through the “swamp business” in the status of victims and witnesses often did not contain any information about the defendants, but indicated the coordination of the rally participants on May 6, allegedly breaking through to the Kremlin. Witnesses of the defense, in turn, pointed out the chaotic and mainly peaceful actions of the demonstrators, as well as the fact that Udaltsov called only to the sitting on the asphalt in protest against the narrowing of the rally, but not to violent actions.

According to the prosecution, the Left Front prepared new participants in the riots in summer camps in Lithuania. Witnesses showed that these camps were just a platform for historical and political lectures and discussions.

The criminal case was based on a video of the meeting of four people whom the investigation considers Udaltsov, Razvozzhaev, Konstantin Lebedev and Yuri Aimaletinov, with Targamadze in Minsk. In the video, people discuss plans for financing and organizing protests, drink wine, many shocking ideas perceive with a common laughter. The record was shown in the program "Anatomy of Protest-2" to NTV, the author of the program stated in court that the disk with the video was handed over to the Unknown Caucasian on the street.

After the show of the transfer in October 2012, Razvoszhaev tried to receive a political execution in Kyiv, but was stolen and taken to Russia, where the Investigative Committee arrested him. Leonid signed a confession, which he subsequently refused. Konstantin Lebedev was also arrested, Sergey Udaltsov was taken on a recognizance not to leave, and later under house arrest. Aimaletdinov took place in the case in the status of a witness. Lebedev pleaded guilty, gave accusations to colleagues, was convicted and released on parole in the spring of 2014.

The process in quotes.