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This past week, the Constitutional Court made a half-hearted decision in response to a complaint against Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code about “repeated violations of the procedure for holding public events.” The Constitutional Court did not consider that this article contradicts the Constitution, but obliged legislators to amend it taking into account the public danger of violations, and decided that the criminal case of Ildar Dadin, sentenced under this article to two years in a general regime colony (the court considered his complaint against the article) ), should be sent for new consideration.

However, what a new review could be like was clearly shown to us in the “Kirovles Case”: the Leninsky District Court of Kirov, like the Kirov Regional Court more than three years ago,sentenced Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov to five and four years probation, respectively.

No freedom of assembly

In St. Petersburg, activist and human rights defender Dinar Idrisov was detained for a single picket in support of Ildar Dadin. A protocol was drawn up against him for violating the procedure for holding public events and disobeying the legal demands of police officers.

In Simferopol, activist Ilya Bolshedvorov was detained , standing in a single picket demanding the resignation of the mayor, and Cossack ataman Sergei Akimov, who was filming what was happening on camera; in Kerch, All- Russian Popular Front activist Andrei Strashko was detained: the meeting of the ONF with local residents was considered a rally.

In Moscow, activists of the “Other Russia” were detained for trying to hang a banner “Capitalism is crap” on the Rosneft building. In Lyubertsy, near Moscow, journalist Alexander Zimbovsky was detained for photographing an eviction from a hostel.

In Nevyansk (Sverdlovsk region), former orphanage resident Arkady Kovalenko was detained , who pitched a tent in front of the city hall, protesting against the eviction of his family and their one-and-a-half-year-old child onto the street. In Perm, two participants in single pickets of defrauded shareholders were detained . And in Krasnogorsk near Moscow, a representative of the taxi driver movement Oleg Amosov was detained after a meeting with the acting Minister of Transport of the Moscow Region. He was accused of holding an uncoordinated event.

In Cheboksary, participants in the “Opposition Walk” were fingerprinted .

In Murmansk, a march in the city center against increasing public transport fares was not approved . In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the LGBT protest was not approved ; in Salekhard and Orenburg, the courts recognized similar refusals of approval as legal . In Moscow, the prefecture demanded the cancellation of an electronic music party.

In St. Petersburg, an inspection was carried out of the action in St. Isaac's Cathedral against its transfer to the jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church: the action was not considered a violation of order, but the museum employees will be checked in connection with how they allowed this non-violation. In addition, the Central Internal Affairs Directorate demanded to check the deputies of the Legislative Assembly who met with residents on the Field of Mars on the same issue.

But it also happens that the courts make decisions in favor of activists who take to the streets. Thus, the Central District Court of Voronezh stopped proceedings against activist Alexander Boldyrev, against whom the police drew up two reports for coordinated actions against the war in Syria and for the abolition of direct mayoral elections. And the Supreme Court of Tatarstan overturned the decision of the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan, which at the end of 2015 imposed a fine of 10 thousand rubles on the head of the Society of Russian Culture, Mikhail Shcheglov, for being behind the fence of an event dedicated to the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Federation.

And if it is not possible to achieve such a decision in Russian courts, the European Court of Human Rights can help: recently it ordered the Russian government to pay more than 1,700 thousand euros to 23 applicants of various actions in Russia.

But now the authorities will increase vigilance, and the Russian Guard will begin to monitor rallies from airships.

Other types of persecution

This past week, war was declared against Moscow activist Mark Halperin. First, he was detained while sawing out the door to the apartment and taken for interrogation in a certain case of extremism, in which, as it turned out, he was a witness (Gradus-TV journalist Olga Sapronova was interrogated in the same case). And two days later, Galperin was unexpectedly detained in the building of Sberbank in the town of Reutov near Moscow, after which he was arrested for ten days on charges of disobedience to the legal demands of police officers.

Tatar activist Rafis Kashapov, sentenced to three years in prison for posts on social networks that were regarded as calls for extremism and separatism, was sent from the colony to hospital , diagnosis unknown.

Crimean director Sentsov and anti-fascist Kolchenko, sentenced to long terms on charges of preparing terrorist attacks, were again refused to be transferred to Ukraine.

St. Petersburg police challenged the court's decision to stop the administrative prosecution of Dmitry Ugay, who gave a lecture on yoga and was detained on suspicion of violating the law on missionary work.

Open Russia coordinator Vladimir Kara-Murza, as in 2015, was hospitalized with symptoms similar to poisoning and was diagnosed with “acute intoxication with an unknown substance.”

"Yandex. Money”blocked a wallet that was collecting money in support of Alexei Navalny’s election campaign.

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