A participant in the action on July 27, Nikita Chirtsov, who was detained on August 28 in Minsk and deported to Russia, flew to Moscow Domodedovo Airport. He told OVD-Info about this by phone.
According to Chirtsov, no one met him; he is now at the airport without an escort or police. At this moment, lawyer from OVD-Info Alexander Borkov is providing legal advice to Chirtsov.
- Belarusian police detained Nikita Chirtsov on August 28. According to TASS, Chirtsov is wanted because of the events of July 27 in Moscow.
- On July 27, protests took place in Moscow in support of independent candidates in the Moscow City Duma elections, during which, according to OVD-Info, 1,373 people were detained . Three days after the action, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for mass riots. There are 13 defendants in the case, all of them were charged with participation in mass riots (Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code). Four - Evgeniy Kovalenko, Kirill Zhukov, Danil Beglets and Ivan Podkopaev - were also accused of using harmless violence against government officials (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code), their cases under this article were separated into separate proceedings.