In Moscow, a picketer detained with cardboard deputy Slutsky was fined

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow fined Alena Popova 20,000 rubles for being detained during a solitary picket near the State Duma with a cardboard figure of deputy Leonid Slutsky. Popova wrote about this on Facebook.

She was found guilty under part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (holding a public event without filing a notification).

Popova was detained at the State Duma on April 2, when she stood with a cardboard figure of Slutsky - the police considered the figure to be a collapsible structure. The next day, she was detained during a similar action.

On April 3, were also detained other participants in one-man pickets against sexual harassment, Anastasia Alekseeva and Anastasia Glushkova, . Protocols were drawn up against them under part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation by a participant of the procedure for holding a public event).

• Earlier, three journalists - Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the RTVi TV channel Ekaterina Kotrikadze, producer of the Dozhd TV channel Daria Zhuk and journalist of the BBC Russian service Farida Rustamova - accused Leonid Slutsky of sexual harassment. The BBC published a transcript of the audio recording Rustamova's conversation with Slutsky, during which the deputy offered the journalist to become his mistress.The State Duma Commission on Deputy Ethics considered the complaints of journalists, but did not find any violations in Slutsky's behavior.
• The Moscow Mayor's Office did not approve Popova's pickets against sexual harassment. The last refusal of the authorities became known on April 11.