10 - 14 April

“Every Sunday at 14.00 my friends and I walk along Tverskaya Street. People in the form invited me to go through a conversation, they surrounded me, I did not show resistance and disobedience, on the contrary, went where they invited me. <...> I did not want any, I apologize for the expression, Mesilov, ”Vyacheslav Maltsev told in court about his detention on March 26 during a protest campaign in Moscow

Oppositionist Vyacheslav Maltsev before a meeting of the Tver district court, at which he will be sentenced to administrative arrest, Moscow, April 14, 2017

April 10, Monday

For two months, the Presnensky court of Moscow arrested the Mathematics teacher of the Moscow Financial and Legal Academy Dmitry Bogatov, suspected of calling for terrorism and mass riots during an inconsistent protest in the capital on April 2. According to the initial version of the investigation, a 25-year-old teacher, under a fictional name, called on the forum for system administrators Sysadmins.ru to bring rags, bottles, gasoline, turpentine and polystyrene on red square, claiming that “violence is inevitable”. All these posts were sent from the IP address of the Bogatov computer. He himself rejects the accusations, and his wife claims that at a time when Bogatov allegedly published calls to the riots, they were together in a fitness center and a supermarket.

April 13, Thursday

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) satisfied the complaint of relatives of children who died or injured in the Beslan tragedy in 2004. The ECHR stated that the Russian authorities violated Art. 2 of the European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“Right to Life”) and did not cope with the obligation to prevent a possible threat to people's lives, and also properly did not plan the assault. There were more than 400 applicants in the case, who, according to the court decision, Russia should pay compensation in the total amount of € 2.955 million, as well as € 88 thousand as a reimbursement of legal costs.

April 14, Friday

By 15 days of administrative arrest, the Saratov oppositionist Vyacheslav Maltsev was sentenced. The Tver court of the capital found him guilty of disobedience to the police during a protest campaign in Moscow on March 26 (Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation). Maltsev categorically denies his guilt. His assistant Konstantin Zelenin received 15 days of arrest.

On April 13, in Saratov, at about 7 a.m., law enforcement officers drank the door to Maltsev’s apartment and searched in connection with the investigation of the criminal case under Art. 318 h. 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on the use of violence to a police officer during the campaign on March 26 (in this case, the opposition is a witness). The opposition became ill, but despite the worsening well -being, he was sent to Moscow by plane, taking on board on a stretcher. Searches in this matter were also held with the son of Maltsev Roman, his ally Sergey Okunev, among the organizers of the “Russian march” Ivan Beletsky and Yuri Gorsky.

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