For a bust and cross

In Krasnodar, police detained civil activist Viktor Chirikov. It is reported by the "Voice of the Kuban" with reference to the wife of the detainee.

On Saturday, at about 14 hours, the police stopped Chirikov’s car. The detention of the activist took place in a tough manner. Two cars with employees of the PPS and a car with operatives in civilian clothes took part in it. The activist’s car remained abandoned at the detention site.

Chirikov later said that he was detained before the court and was in the police department on Oktyabrskaya Street. The proceedings, the activist added, should go in the Leninsky District Court of the city on Sunday; Start at 8 in the morning.

Presumably the detention of Chirikov is associated with shares on the day of the Chekist. On December 20, a wooden crucifix was placed on the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky.

In the evening, on Wednesday, the police were already coming to Chirikov. The security forces convinced the opposition to go to the department with them, assuring that the surveillance cameras recorded how Chirikov, along with another citizen, hung a cross on the pedestal, and that the second participant in the action was allegedly interviewed and admitted in everything.

On Thursday, the police detained activist Alexei Knedlyakovsky . On Tuesday, he, along with a photograph of the monument with a crucifix, published on his page on the social network the text "New Chekist".

“He fights a deficit of spiritual bond and strengthens the spiritual and moral basis of society,” the text said. “He leads hatred and revenge, conducts an energetic and active struggle against the enemies of the people. He takes care of the health of the nation. He considers the pledge of his successes the traditional values ​​transferred to his ancestors in combination with aspirations in the future. He sees stability. He believes that it is necessary not only to defeat the current enemy forces, but also to show that whoever raises the sword against the existing class system will die from the sword. ”

On Friday, the Leninsky District Court of Krasnodar arrested Knedlyakovsky for 15 days . As lawyer Alexander Popkov told the Franes, the activist found guilty of petty hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The lawyer noted that the court did not watch evidence and video, in fact did not find out anything. "Alexei Knedlyakovsky asked to postpone the meeting so that I, his lawyer, manage to come to the court from another region, but he was refused. He would not plead guilty. We will definitely appeal this decision as illegal and unreasonable," Popkov said.

Knedlyakovsky managed to inform the lawyer that he considered the case politically motivated. "There was no court as such, so I am announcing a hunger strike. There is nothing in the case at all. No evidence," the activist said.

The action received wide lighting in the Kuban media. However, as the journalist-populist Evgeny Titov noticed on Wednesday in the evening, in the future, most of the Internet publications, including such well-known ones as Yugopolis and South.ru, deleted their publications. This was concluded by Titov, "speaks of the pressure provided."