Open Russia lawyer was handed the second protocol under the law on undesirable organizations

The prosecutor's office of the Chuvash Republic handed the Cheboksary lawyer of Open Russia Yuri Sidorov a protocol on an administrative offense under Art. 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (carrying out the activities of an undesirable organization), according to the website Idel.real.

As OVD-Info already wrote , in addition to the administrative article for carrying out the activities of an undesirable organization, there is also a criminal one - Art. 284.1 of the Criminal Code. To attract it, you must commit two administrative offenses within one year.

According to Art. 284.1 provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to six years. In the case of Sidorov, this is the second report in a year, and if the court finds him guilty again, a criminal case can be initiated against him.

Dmitry Semyonov, the former head of the Chuvash headquarters of Open Russia, is in the same situation. On February 13, the second protocol under Art. 20.33.

In April 2017, the Prosecutor General's Office recognized as "undesirable" foreign organizations a number of structures founded abroad by the politician and former businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, including: "Otkrytaya Rossia" and "Open Russia Civic Movement", registered in Britain.

Previously, Khodorkovsky himself had insisted that Open Russia, operating in Russia, could not fall under the law, since it was registered as a local, and not as a foreign one. The Russian prosecutor's office, on the contrary, considers the movement to be part of the structures controlled by the former head of Yukos.

UPD Yuri Sidorov told OVD-Info that he had not yet received the protocol, although the document was indeed ready.