In Murmansk, the court fined the applicant of a rally against raising the retirement age

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Murmansk imposed a fine on the applicant of the rally against raising the retirement age that took place on September 9, said Violetta Grudina, coordinator of the local headquarters of Alexei Navalny.

“The court imposed a fine of 150 thousand rubles on the headquarters lawyer Alexey Grigoriev (Grigoriev was the applicant of the protest action) for his protest against pension robbery,” Grudina wrote on the Twitter microblog .

According to Grudina, five people were detained on Thursday and Friday: Alexey Grigoryev, Dmitry Semenkov, Victoria Aristova, Alexander Naryshkin, Oleg Shachin. They are charged with Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (“Violation of the established procedure for organizing or holding a meeting, rally, demonstration, procession or picketing”). Aristova was also threatened with the initiation of proceedings under Art. 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses ("Disobedience to a lawful order of a police officer") due to the fact that she did not give the police her passport.

A rally against raising the retirement age took place on September 9 and turned into a spontaneous march, which ended at the government building of the Murmansk region. The regional Ministry of Internal Affairs reported 150 participants in the rally.

“This is the largest protest action in the history of the city! Everything passed peacefully and without arrests. This day will go down in history!” wrote Violetta Grudina.

According to OVD-Info estimates, a total of 1,018 people were detained in 33 cities of the Russian Federation in connection with the September 9 protests organized by Navlany’s supporters. Some activists were detained preventively, before the start of the action.

The largest number of people were detained in St. Petersburg - more than 452 people. 43 people were detained in Moscow. It was reported that 15 were beaten during arrest. Several people were accused of assaulting police officers.