Olga Smirnova, who was detained earlier on December 12 during a rally at the entrance to the building of the Constitutional Court on Senate Square in St. Petersburg, was released from the 1st police department of the Admiralteisky district without a protocol being drawn up.
During the action, timed to coincide with the Day of the Russian Constitution, sheets with quotations from the odious decisions of the Constitutional Court were spread out on the steps at the entrance to the court in the form of a carpet.