May 15 - 19

May 16, Tuesday

The Tver District Court of Moscow fined the coordinator of the Open Russia movement Maria Baronova for 20 thousand rubles. For the organization of the protest campaign “Tired”: on April 29, its participants arranged a procession on a route that was not agreed with the city authorities. According to the organizers, 400 people participated in the action. Judge Alesa Orekhova found Baronova guilty under Art. 20.2 part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation by the organizer of the public event of the established procedure for its organization or conduct).

“Yuri stood up for one of the participants in the action and tried to breed in different directions of him and an employee of the Russian Guard, who eventually became a victim in our case. He took the participant of the action with one hand, and laid the other hand on his shoulder as a riot police, which, according to the victim, brought him painful sensations, ” - Alexei Lipzer, actor’s lawyer Yuri Kulia, convicted of the use of violence to the policeman

May 18, Thursday

The Tver court of Moscow found the 27-year-old actor Yuri Kulia guilty of applying violence to a police officer (Article 318 of Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) during an unauthorized anti-corruption campaign on March 26. Judge Maria Sizintseva sentenced him to eight months in prison in a colony-settlement. According to the prosecution, on Tverskaya Street, Kuli grabbed the rubber baton and shoulder of the fighter of the National Guard Gavryutin, which "caused physical pain." Earlier, Yuri said that at the rally he wanted to help the elderly person: “The policeman fell, going down from the steps of the monument to Pushkin. He fell on an elderly man, everyone rushed to lift him, including the Russian Guard rushed at us ... Even on the video that was published, it is noticeable that I just spread my hands. This is not an attack at all. ” Nevertheless, Kuli apologized to Gavryutin and pleaded guilty at the trial. After the verdict was announced, he said that he did this in a condition. In addition to Kulia in the case of an attack on police on March 26, three more people are held in Moscow.

On the day of memory of the victims of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars, which was celebrated in Crimea on May 18, the police detained the peninsula of shares dedicated to this date in different cities. In particular, in Simferopol, four activists of the National Movement of Crimean Tatars were detained, one of whom-the 76-year-old Kerametov server-held a single picket on Lenin Square. Also, about 10 young people were delivered to the police department, including two minors, who, after laying flowers to the monument deported and prayers walked along the street with the Crimean Tatar flag. In Feodosia, another Crimean Tatar activist Suleiman Kadyrov was detained, who tried to lay flowers to the monument to deported. All detainees after the cottage were released.

Photo: Dmitry Borko

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