RPR-Parnas demanded to check information about the rally in support of Kadyrov

RPR-Parnas activists demanded to check the legality of the rally on January 21 in support of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, in St. Petersburg. As Fontanka writes on January 25, a corresponding statement was sent to the prosecutor's office of the Moskovsky district of St. Petersburg.

Information about the rally “Kadyrov - Patriot of Russia” that took place in St. Petersburg was published on January 21 on the website of the Chechen Ministry of National Policy, External Relations, Press and Information (a screenshot of the first version of the article is available on the Fontanka.ru website). The message said that the rally attracted several hundred participants and, starting at 8 a.m., ended after sunset.

The article does not indicate where the event took place, but the photograph published in it, which depicts nine people with flags and posters “Kadyrov is a patriot of Russia,” was taken against the backdrop of the Sobranie business center on Novoroshchinskaya Street, Fontanka writes . The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region denied information about the event to the publication, and the district police department reported that there had been no notification of the event. The security of the business center also did not confirm information about the rally to Novaya Gazeta in St. Petersburg. The head of the representative office of the head of Chechnya in the North-West, Idris Duguchiev, who was allegedly present at the rally, refused to answer Fontanka’s question about the number of participants in the rally, saying that he “did not count the people.” As Novaya Gazeta in St. Petersburg notes, on the morning of January 23, the photograph for the press release about the rally was replaced with one taken in another place - against the backdrop of the monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad on Victory Square.

On the morning of Friday, January 22, a rally in support of Kadyrov took place in Grozny. The founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Alexey Navalny, appealed to the Investigative Committee with a demand to initiate criminal cases of coercion to participate in a rally, as well as misuse of budget funds (under Articles 149 and 285.1 of the Criminal Code). Internet users also drew attention to the fact that the rally in Grozny could not be agreed upon within the time period established by law (no earlier than 15 and no later than 10 days before the date of the event), since the reason for holding the rally (widespread criticism of Kadyrov’s statements) appeared only on January 13 .