The court fined the activist for a single picket, citing the holding of the Confederations Cup

On August 17, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow fined activist Roman Petrishchev 10,000 rubles for taking part in a solitary picket. Under Russian law, one-man pickets can be held without prior notice or permission. But in this case, the court referred to the ban on any mass actions during the Confederations Cup. about this on Facebook . wrote On August 18 , Roman Petrishchev himself

On July 4, Petrishchev held a solo picket near the same court where the trial on the murder of Boris Nemtsov was held that day. The police detained Petrishchev, as well as Mikhail Lashkevich , but they did not begin to draw up a protocol for the latter . On Petrishchev, a protocol was drawn up on violation of the procedure for holding public events.

From June 1 to July 12, 2017, special security measures were introduced in a number of Russian regions by presidential decree due to the Confederations Cup, an international football competition on the eve of the World Cup. You can read more about this in the OVD-Info material “Unsporting Behavior”.