Chronicle of current events. 13 - 17 April

Natalya Pelevina became the 31st person involved in the “Swamp business”. On April 17, it was interrogated by investigators, after interrogation with Pelevina, they took a wizard about the lower room. The investigation suspects a member of the RPR-Parnas of “financing the riots”, Moscow, 2012

April 14, Tuesday

Georgy Alburov, associate of Alexei Navalny, received 240 hours of compulsory work. The Court of the Oktyabrsky District Vladimir found an employee of the Corruption Fund guilty of the theft of Sergei Sotov’s painting “Bad Good Man”. The prosecutor demanded the sentence of Alburov to 3 years in prison, but the court did not consider the damage caused to Sotov, significant. The defense of the ally of Navalny has already stated that she would appeal the verdict.

In the Ulyanovsk colony, the professor of the Baltic State Technical University "Voenmekh" Evgeny Afanasyev died. In 2012, he was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison for the Stateizer. According to the court, Afanasyev, together with another professor of Voenmekh, Svyatoslav Bobyshev, transferred secret information to Chinese intelligence, including the tests of the Bulava missile system. According to Afanasyev’s defense, all these data were published in scientific journals.

April 15, Wednesday

The court extended the house arrest of oppositionist Konstantin Yankauskas, who has been under house arrest for more than ten months. However, the court allowed the opposition once a month to meet with residents of the Moscow district Zyuzino, from whom he was elected a deputy, and send a correspondence associated with the execution of his deputy powers.

According to investigators, Yankauskas, Vladimir Ashurkov and Nikolai Lyaskin in September 2013 transferred 1 million rubles to Navalny. After that, oppositionists posted on the Internet calls to transfer money to Navalny to reimburse their own investments.

April 16, Thursday

In the Moscow office of the Open Russia Foundation, a search was held. According to the decision for the search, the employees of the E-E Center were looking for campaign materials containing "calls to carry out extremist activities to distribute and demonstrate publicly on April 19, 2015 at the opposition rally." The police seized computers and propaganda products prepared for the Spring march. The head of Open Russia, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, connects searches with the film about Ramzan Kadyrov, who shoots the fund.

Photo: Anton Novoderezhkin/ITAR-TASS