The Moscow City Court left in custody the defendants in the March 26 Case, Politikov and Borisov.

On August 30, the Moscow City Court confirmed the decision of the court of first instance to extend the detention of two defendants in the March 26 Case, Alexei Politikov and Dmitry Borisov.

Politicov, an associate of the leader of the Artpodgotovka movement Vyacheslav Maltsev, remains in jail until October 11, as decided by the Basmanny District Court. In the appeal, lawyer Sergei Badamshin spoke about Politikov’s health problems, that the investigative actions against the activist against Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code (the use of violence that is not dangerous to life and health against a representative of the authorities, the maximum sanction is imprisonment for up to five years) have long been carried out, detention is meaningless. The court made a decision in a few minutes - to refuse the complaint. The human rights center "Memorial" recognized Politikov as a political prisoner.

Borisov was represented by lawyer Nikolai Fomin. Human rights activists Lev Ponomarev and Lyudmila Alekseeva handed over guarantees to appeal to extend Borisov's detention (until September 8 ). The court admitted it, but left the decision of the court of first instance unchanged. this on Facebook reports Irina Yatsenko . In addition, petitions to postpone the meeting were not granted - due to the fact that another lawyer for Borisov, Ilya Novikov, could not attend because he was involved in another process, as well as a petition to appoint Pyotr Kuryanov as a public defender.

Borisov is accused of assaulting a policeman. According to investigators, he kicked police officer Erokhin twice in the head.