May 16-20 of the chronicle of current events

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

“The usual practice of transit and escorting prisoners in the Moscow City Court - mandatory beating with batons, torture by a electric shocker, and bullying overcontaining. Even if the prisoner passes through this court in transit. I learned about this by chance from Peter Pavlensky when he handed me a speech to the award of Vaclav Gavel. He was there just yesterday, ”wrote Oksana Shalygina on her Facebook

On May 19, the Preobrazhensky court of Moscow found Pavlensky guilty of vandalism for the Freedom campaign, sentenced to 1 year 4 months of restriction of freedom and decided to release from punishment in connection with the expiration of the statute of limitations, Moscow, May 18, 2016

May 17, Tuesday

In the Moscow City Court, the convoys beat the actor-activist Peter Pavlensky. As his associate of Oksana Shalygin reported on her Facebook page, Pavlensky had a knee interrupted, a crack in the edge and internal hematomas. The beating occurred when the artist was transferred with transit through the court building.

At the Anapa Airport, 30 people attacked Alexei Navalny and FBK employees. Some of the attackers were in Cossack ceremonial uniform. First, they threw the opposition with milk packages, shouted: “Get out of our Kuban land!”, And then they began to beat everyone, including women and children. The coordinator of the FBK projects Artem Torchinsky suffered most of all - he was defeated by the temple. He was hospitalized (see p. 40).

May 18, Wednesday

In Dagestan, Ramazan Jalaldinov, a resident of the Chechen village of Kenha, tried to kidnap, who previously published a video message to Vladimir Putin with a complaint against Ramzan Kadyrov and was forced to flee from Chechnya. The incident occurred on May 15, but it became known only on Wednesday. According to the Moscow Komsomolets, Jalaldinov met with the chairman of the parliament of Dagestan Hizhri Shikhsaidov and tried to agree with the leadership of Chechnya - to stop writing appeals in exchange for the liberation of the residents of the village of Kenha, detained by Chechen security officials. In response, the State Duma deputy from Chechnya Adam Delimkhanov demanded to deliver Jalaldinov to Grozny. According to MK, after that, unknowners tried to capture him at the exit from the mosque. Parishioners prevented the abduction.

May 19, Thursday

In Vologda, an attack on the head of the local branch of the Party of Progress Yevgeny Domozhirov was committed. Early in the morning on Thursday, the unknown shot the opposition from a traumatic pistol near the kindergarten. As the victim noted, two bullets fell into the back, one in the hand. So far, he finds it difficult to say what the attack is connected with. But he admitted that, perhaps, with the development of a local park against which he is fighting, or elections to the State Duma. Earlier, on May 11, in Vologda they shot at Oleg Kunitsyn - deputy chief editor of the newspaper Minute of Truth.