Police in St. Petersburg interrupted the Ingria Fest concert

On Saturday, July 29, police officers interrupted the Ingria-Fest concert, which was held at the Rout club. According to Fontanka, concert attendees were “put face down on the floor”, then their documents were checked. In addition, some of those gathered were tested for drugs.

The department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg explained to Fontanka that the police arrived after local residents complained about the noise.

Another law enforcement source told the publication that the incident at the club is preventive in nature, since "a number of festival participants may be involved in the promotion of extremist ideology in their works."

In addition, the Fontanka informant said that one of the organizers of the event was the radical nationalist Nikolai Menshchakov, known by the nickname Volot.

On July 24, it became known that Roskomnadzor blocked the website of the Free Ingria movement, which advocates the creation of an autonomous republic of Ingermanland around St. Petersburg "with the possibility of further self-determination." The Prosecutor General's Office accused the site of spreading calls for mass riots, extremism, participation in mass events held in violation of the established order.