Such a week. Issue No. 6

Hello, dear readers of OVD-Info! This week has been very difficult, and knowledge of how to protect yourself is becoming more and more relevant, but we really hope that you will not need it. If you are missing something in the newsletter or want to tell us about something, we are waiting for your letters to info@ovdinfo.org marked “newsletter”.

A new defendant has appeared in the ​“March 26 Case”​. In Moscow, 14% Movement activist Dmitry Borisov was searched, after which he was brought to the Investigative Committee for identification and a confrontation with a police officer. Borisov is accused of using violence against a police officer (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). He is currently in custody in the Petrovka temporary detention center. The court arrested him until August 8. The court arrested him until August 8. But investigative actions are taking place not only in Moscow - in Petrozavodsk, a participant in the action on March 26 is also suspected of using violence against a policeman.

The office of the Sitting Russia organization, which helps convicts and their families, was searched. ​It was carried out by employees of the Department for Combating Economic Crimes (UBEP) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. They studied financial documents, printed materials, external storage media and office computers. The search was carried out as part of a pre-investigation investigation into embezzlement of budget funds.

Natalya Sharina, ex-director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature, received a 4-year suspended sentence. She was found guilty of inciting hatred and enmity (Article 282 of the Criminal Code), as well as embezzlement of property entrusted to her (Parts 3 and 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code) in the amount of 2.178 million rubles. Here you can read how the debate before the verdict went. In addition, we wrote how and why libraries are being persecuted, and the CEO of Gorky.media and co-founder of the Phalanster bookstore Boris Kupriyanov told how the book community reacted to Sharina’s case.

In Moscow, truckers were detained in a parking lot during a tea party. This happened on Saturday evening in a parking lot at the 6th kilometer of the Moscow Ring Road. The drivers drank tea in the trucks. The police asked the truckers to come out to talk, after which they were detained. Three people were taken to the department - Mikhail Kurbatov, Alexey Borisov and Yuri Bukanov. The next day after Borisov’s arrest , he was forcibly taken to court from the parking lot, but was soon released after being issued a summons . Truckers are protesting against the Platon additional toll system. Because of this, the police are putting pressure on them.

The anti-corruption action on July 12 is not approved in many cities, and the organizers are being persecuted. Here and here you can find information about how shares are approved or not approved. For example, in Arkhangelsk, demonstrators are sent to the island of Solombala, and in Novorossiysk, the applicant of the action on June 12was beaten in the city administration and handed over to the police. Later he was arrested for 5 days.

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We are publishing a letter from prison from human rights activist, expert of the “For Human Rights” movement Andrei Osmachkin. A criminal case was opened against him under four articles. Here you can read in detail what he is accused of and how it happened.

We talk in detail about the case of nationalist Stanislav Zimovets, who is accused of using violence against a police officer at a rally on March 26. He is the first of the defendants in the “March 26 Case”to refuse a special procedure. Now the court is considering evidence from the prosecution and defense, as well as other details of the events of March 26 in Moscow.

We scrupulously collected and processed all possible information about the protests on March 26, and Meduza published it in the form of a map. From 36,149 to 89,832 people in 97 cities took to the streets on March 26; in most regions, local authorities refused to coordinate the actions. 1,675 people were detained, and seven became involved in criminal cases. You can view the map here . All new information that appears to us automatically appears on the map.

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