Chronicles of current events

March 2–13

March 4, the police do not trust 43 % of Russians. More than a third of the respondents (36 %) are dissatisfied with the work of law enforcement agencies, and 12 % are afraid of representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. These are the results of the study conducted by the Public Verdict Foundation together with the Levada Center. Sympathy in relation to law enforcement officers is experienced by 10 % of respondents, with respect, 25 % of Russians are respected. At the same time, three quarters of citizens are ready to cooperate with the bodies if necessary.

SK is looking for signs of insulting the feelings of believers in the opera Tangeyer, but so far the production has not been removed from the repertoire on March 10, Tuesday, the court terminated the administrative case on the opera Tanniger. In the actions of the director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater Boris Mezdrich and the director of the production of Timofei Kulyabin, they did not find an offense. The case in relation to the article “Public Development of Subjects of Religious Honor” was initiated on the complaint of the Metropolitan of Novosibirsk and Berdsky Tikhon. The prosecutor's office promised to appeal the court decision.

March 11, Wednesday became aware of the case on the Stateizer against Radio Engineering Gennady Kravtsov. As it turned out, he was arrested on suspicion of Gosizman as early as May 2014. According to the wife of the suspect Alla Kravtsova, the reason for the arrest was the resume that Kravtsov sent to the Swedish company in 2011. The investigation believes that the radio engineer, who worked in the GRU for 15 years, deliberately set out secret data in the letter. The media learned about this case after the defense demanded an independent examination of the resume from the court.

March 12, Thursday Kuzbass blogger Stanislav Kalinichenko was sentenced to a fine for retweet. Kalinichenko found the court guilty under Part 1 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activity) and sentenced to a fine of 150 thousand rubles. The reason for initiating a criminal case was the leaflets “Rate to go to rallies and start acting!” According to Sergei Chuvichkin, the lawyer Kalinichenko, the activist did not notion about the court and did not send the summons. However, on the eve of the meeting, three unknown people put Kalinichenko in the car and drove him around the city all night, not allowing him to go out, but in the morning they brought him to court.

*“Chronicle of current events”-a typewritten human rights information ballot, distributed in Samizdat in 1968-1983 Photo: Evgeny Ivanov/Kommersant