November 30 - December 4

“Chronicle of current events”-a typewritten human rights information ballot, distributed in Samizdat in 1968-1983

“The Seagull hoped that the information from our investigation would not be widely dispersed and drowning inside the“ radical-opposition part of the Internet ”. Then you could just get silent. It didn’t work out, I had to speak out, but we only heard traditional. Around the slander for money, and customers are Obama and Erdogan. Can I find out where the lie? " - From the post of Alexei Navalny on his website

December 2, Wednesday

Another suspect in the "Swamp case" was arrested . The candidate of political sciences and a member of the anarchist organization "Autonomous Action", the 35-year-old teacher Dmitry Buchenkov is charged with part 1 of Art. 318 (“Application of violence to a representative of the authorities”) and part 2 of Art. 212 of the Criminal Code ("Participation in the riots"). According to his lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina, the court arrested Buchenkov for 2 months without her participation, and neither the court nor the Investigative Committee explained to her what they blamed the client. On the day of arrest in Buchenkov’s apartment, a search was made.

December 3, Thursday

FBK sued the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. The legal department of the Corruption Fund Alexei Navalny filed a statement to the Presnensky court of Moscow with a claim for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation. Earlier, Yuri Chaika said that the information of the FBK “is false in nature”, as well as that he knows the customers of the “stuffing”. “It is absolutely clear to me who is behind it. I think that in the near future I will voice it, ”said the Prosecutor General.

On December 1, an investigation of the Corruption Fund Alexei Navalny was published, which refers to the criminal business of children of the Prosecutor General, Artem and Igor Chakk.

In Novosibirsk, a court of "microphone case" began. On July 17, 2015, during the election campaign, the chief of staff of the Democratic Coalition Leonid Volkov, according to the investigation version, “prevented the activities of the journalist of the Lifenews television channel by Alexander Prezynsky, preventing him from taking off the moment of throwing Alexei Navalny with eggs. According to the victim, Volkov broke his microphone and “caused physical pain”, grabbing his hand.

Leonid Volkov claims that "the case is political in nature and is aimed at not allowing to participate in the elections to the State Duma this year." Under Art. 144 of the Criminal Code (“Obligging of the legal professional activity of a journalist”) to the opposition can face up to 6 years in prison.

December 4, Friday

The Prosecutor General’s Office recognized the next NGOs undesirable. It turned out to be the “US-Russian Foundation for Economic and Legal Development” (US Russia Foundation for Economic Advanceement and the Rule of Law). The Fund is developing programs for the training of young economists, including with the participation of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, organizes the internships of Russian specialists in the US research centers, and supports Russian entrepreneurs. The activities of the fund in the prosecutor's office were regarded as a “threat to the constitutional system”. Organizations also were charged with “the provision of financial assistance to Russian NPOs, performing the functions of a“ foreign agent ”.

Dmitry Buchentkov is a new person involved in the “Swamp business”. Photo of 2012 from a personal page on the social network VKontakte