
In Podolsk, a civilian activist Maxim Chekanov is beaten. According to OVD-Info, on April 11 in the afternoon he stood at the stop and saw three men who looked at him for some time and discussed something. Then one of them called him by name.
Then Chekanov began to ask questions about the "Kyiv junta" and call "Bandera scum". “When I heard the proposal to go around the corner, I realized that fights could not be avoided,” said Chekanov. According to him, during the fight, his face was defeated.
On March 9, the judge of the Tver District Court of Moscow Ales Orekhova arrested Chekanova for 10 days for participating in the meeting in support of Nadezhda Savchenko, last a day earlier on the Triumphal Square. Chekanov was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (disobedience to the legal request of the policeman).
In the second case, fabricated in part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the procedure for public events), the judge fined the activist for 20 thousand rubles.
In total, 35 out of about 60 participants in the meeting were detained on Tuesday on the triumphal. Citizens went to the square to discuss the conduct of single pickets on the garden ring. They did not hold posters, although many on their clothes had tapes of the colors of the Ukrainian flag. At some point, the audience decided to take a picture of the group. The police immediately began to detain citizens shouting "Your action is illegal" ( 
Chekanov and before that participated in Savchenko’s support shares. So on November 26, 2014, he and 10 more civilian activists held a disagreed picket from the State Duma in support of the Ukrainian pilot ( 