Employees of the Sverdlovsk departments of the FSB and the Investigative Committee (IC) came to the protesters against the construction of the temple in Yekaterinburg: they are conducting searches at the homes of activists Maxim Korchemkin and Tatyana Markina in the case of mass riots (Article 212 of the Criminal Code). write about this Znak.ru and OVD-info . One of the activists was summoned for questioning as a witness. According to Korchemkin’s lawyer, in the Investigative Committee the activist was simply “asked to confess to a crime and cooperate,” however, having achieved nothing, he was later released from the department.

The criminal case, which was opened in June, has no defendants so far: neither suspects nor defendants.

Actions against the construction of a temple in the square near the Drama Theater were held from May 13 to 16. During this time, the police detained about 100 people, 30 of them were arrested, and several more people received fines from 10 thousand to 15 thousand rubles. What it was planned for the temple and why the locals were against - we wrote in detail here .
The Sverdlovsk authorities drew attention to the problem after President Vladimir Putin commented on the situation .
Despite the support of the construction of the Russian Orthodox Church, after polls, the authorities ruled out the possibility of building a temple on the site of a public garden in the city center.

Participants of protests against the temple in Yekaterinburg were searched