Open Russia coordinator in Chuvashia fined for “undesirable organization”

Dmitry Semyonov, coordinator of Open Russia in Chuvashia, was fined 5,000 rubles by the court for cooperating with an "undesirable organization" (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). about this Writes "Idel. Realities".

In the course of the process, defense counsel Yuri Sidorov petitioned for the inclusion in the case of copies of reports from the federal media, in which the position of the Prosecutor General's Office on this issue was presented. The agency believes that British organizations are not identical to the social network movement "Open Russia" in Chuvashia.

The local Prosecutor's Office decided that the Open Russia movement is the same organization as the Open Russia Civic Movement in the UK, recognized as undesirable in Russia.

In January, Yury Sidorov and Anton Kravchenko were fined 5,000 rubles for cooperation with an "undesirable organization" in Chuvashia.

The British organization "Otkrytaya Rossia" was recognized as undesirable in Russia. The prosecutor's office believes that the Open Russia movement operating in Russia is the same organization.

On January 17, the Open Russia movement announced the start of the #StopPutin federal action with the slogan: "I don't care about anyone, I'm elected as I want."

On the same day, police detained members of the Open Russia movement in different cities. In Cheboksary, Dmitry Semyonov, a member of the federal council of Open Russia, was detained at a bus stop when he was getting off a trolley bus. In the police department, according to the OR team, the police admitted to Semyonov that they had detained him "by order from above." A few hours later, he was accused of possessing extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and the #StopPutin stickers were confiscated for examination.