Participants in the Nemtsov Most campaign in Petrozavodsk were called to the police

Four participants in the traditional action of Boris Nemtsov’s memory, who took place in Petrozavodsk on the anniversary of the murder of an opposition policy on February 27, received summons to the police to draw up a protocol under an article on rallies. Civil activists appeared on March 14 to the senior inspector of the department Alexei Danshin, but refused to sign the protocol and testify, citing Article 51 of the Russian Constitution.

As Radio Liberty said, one of the activists, Andrei Oborin, the participants in the action do not consider it a picket or any other public event, which, under current legislation, requires coordination with the local authorities.

Oborin also drew attention to the fact that the police officers issued the administrative offense protocol two weeks after the memory of the memory, although according to the law it should be drawn up within a maximum of two days after the revelation of the offense.

This year, the memory of Boris Nemtsov’s memory was held in Petrozavodsk for the fourth time. A group of citizens came on the evening of February 27 to the bridge over the Lososinka River, which became a symbolic "Nemtsov bridge" in the Karelian capital, established a portrait of the deceased politician on it and laid flowers to it.

“We had no preliminary agreements ,” Andrei Oborin emphasized. “ We come to this place every year. Last year there were a lot of police officers around, but they did not arise with us then. When I said goodbye to the inspector, he told him that he would see on the bridge a year later.”

This year, the Memo Most memory campaign was held in Petrozavodsk without the participation of law enforcement officials. As the civil activists were told in the department for the implementation of administrative legislation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Karelian capital, the police learned about this action from publications in the media.