In Kostroma, the court fined a student detained during an anti-corruption walk

The judge of the Sverdlovsk Court of Kostroma, Alla Kudryashova, on March 29, found Kostroma University student Oleg Prosin guilty of committing an administrative offense under part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the established procedure for organizing or holding a meeting, rally, demonstration, procession or picketing) and sentenced him to a fine of 10 thousand rubles. The report on the student was drawn up on March 26 at the police department after being detained on a walk against corruption. During the court session, the judge forbade taking photos and videos in the courtroom. This is reported by the publication "7 × 7".

According to police officers, on March 26, Prosin's violation of the rules for holding a public event was expressed in "moving around with the use of visual agitation."

However, the student himself refused to plead guilty, his defender Viktor Epifanov in court declared violations committed during the preparation of the protocol: his client was not read his rights, which is confirmed by an audio recording, and the assertion that Prosin allegedly led people from October Square to Sovetskaya Street, is not supported by evidence. The defense also pointed out the absence of such a sign of an offense imputed to Prosin as a “picketed object”.

In turn, the representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kostroma region, Lyudmila Ascheulova, noted that at the time of detention, the student was explained his rights, but he did not use the right to a defense lawyer. She called a cardboard box with the inscription "Dimon will answer!", which Prosin held, the object of picketing, and the violation, in her opinion, consisted precisely in moving with this poster.

Witnesses called for the prosecution: a police officer, Major Mikhail Savateev and a representative of the Kostroma administration Vladimir Komorin, told the court that on March 26 after 16:00 Oleg Prosin was seen walking along Sovetskaya Street with a poster in his hands “Dimon will answer!”.

The authorities of Kostroma refused the organizers to approve an anti-corruption picket on October Square in the city. On March 26, citizens took to the streets of the city for a walk against corruption. Oleg Prosin was the only one who was detained by the police.

On the day of the event, one of the organizers Alexander Subbotin was sent on an unplanned business trip to the village of Ponazyrevo, and another, Alexander Zykov, was summoned to the police to testify. The reason was the traces of blood found the day before at the door of his apartment. The police held Zykov for more than ten hours, during five of which he was subjected to a polygraph examination, after which he was released without charge.