Bailiffs, military registration and enlistment office, criminal investigation: pressure on participants in summer protests

Last summer, the authorities did everything to prevent people from taking to the streets. There were also riot police batons, and fines, and criminal cases, and even claims for damages against the organizers of the marches. In addition, the widest arsenal of alternative means was involved. OVD-Info has collected such cases: a criminal investigation, military prosecutor's office, military enlistment offices and visits of district police officers.

criminal investigation

According to the employees of the criminal investigation department, who talked with Danila Kustovsky, who was detained on July 27, the authorities instructed them to visit all the participants in the protests. They came to talk to Alexei Uchaev right under the door of the apartment - they threatened that they would not leave until he opened it. Underage Olga Misik, who goes to rallies with a copy of the Constitution, said that law enforcement officers frightened her with criminal liability before the rally on August 10. They said that the action on the 10th was uncoordinated, although the authorities agreed on it.

The operatives came to Vitaly Chernykh, a participant in summer actions, with a residence permit in Ufa. They stated that Chernykh was suspected of stealing a handbag on the street. At the same time, he has been living in Moscow for four years.

An employee in civilian clothes came to Elena Vaulina at the place of registration in order to inspect her computer. When her daughter replied that her mother did not live here, he rewrote the Internet addresses of Vaulina's pages on social networks.

Precinct

In addition to the operatives of the criminal investigation department, district police officers also went to the opposition - with " preventive conversations ." As it turned out at Konstantin Kotov's trial, the police put all administrative offenders from the rallies on a list, which they call "list 35."

Activist Turana Varzhabetyan, who was in the hospital after July 27, was called by a district police officer on her mobile and dissuaded from participating in future rallies. Beaten at the same action, Mikhail Kulikov was demanded to sign a document stating that he would not participate in the rallies for 180 days. And the district police officer threatened the parents of Grigory Chizhevsky with a criminal case against his son - however, he did not specify which ones.

military registration and enlistment office

On August 2, the Investigative Committee announced that 134 evaders from military service were detained at the protests. The TFR found among them 16 people who could be prosecuted under Article 328 of the Criminal Code (evasion from service). “But even bringing to criminal responsibility does not exempt the “evaders” from military service in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,” the department’s website concluded. to look for draft dodgers They promised right on the squares during the action.

After these statements, employees of the military registration and enlistment offices and military prosecutor's offices really began to send out subpoenas to those who participated in the rallies. It was during the holidays between two calls, the agendas themselves were issued on the dates of the autumn call. Summons demanding to appear at the military prosecutor's office came under the pretext of a harmless clarification of data - although this should be done by the military registration and enlistment offices.

Thirty-year-old Anton Mikheev tried to hand over a summons to the military enlistment office, despite the fact that he is no longer subject to conscription. The same thing happened to Konstantin Konovalov, who had his leg broken while jogging a few hours before the action on July 27th.

also Journalist Maria Tsvetkova, who was detained at the Moscow City Hall on July 27, was summoned to the military registration and enlistment office. At the same time, even the employee of the military registration and enlistment office laughed, handing the document in the name of "Mari Vladimirovich Tsvetkov." He said that “there was an order to break through the detainees at all bases - from the tax office to the bailiffs, frightening them with official requests so that they would not go to rallies anymore.”

Universities

By law, the police can report that a person has been brought to administrative responsibility, to work or to an educational institution. Some universities this summer did not wait for the police to appeal and threatened to expel participants in uncoordinated actions in advance.

So, RSUH Rector Alexander Bezborodov said that the student self-government bodies will assess the actions of violators: “They can offer the university management to expel a person, and if a gross violation has been committed, then the management’s approach will be tough and up to expulsion, yes. It is very important for us to warn young people that unauthorized things are unacceptable.”

And the rector of Moscow State Pedagogical University Alexei Lubkov promised that the participation of students in uncoordinated actions could affect their fate in the university: “Because according to our university charters there are such provisions, such norms that if this is a gross offense, then this is incompatible with further education.”

Bailiffs

On August 7, the deputy head of the Moscow Department of the Bailiff Service stated that her subordinates were carrying out "raid activities" in the apartments of those detained on July 27 in Moscow. Debts were counted for 26 million rubles, mostly credit. Those who were not found at home were threatened by the deputy head of the bailiff's service with forced bringing or being put on the wanted list.

The bailiffs came , for example, to the press secretary of the unregistered independent candidate Yulia Galyamina, as well as to the mundep Vadim Korovin. the property of relatives due to unpaid debts And in Korolev, a member of the “14%” movement was described .

One of the participants in the summer actions tells about the visit of the bailiffs as follows: “They brought some piece of paper with a demand to come to them tomorrow, because I have a debt of 10 thousand“ for the rally ”, but they can’t really say anything in more detail: what kind of protocol from what date, in what court the case was heard. It came, they say, from the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Central Administrative District at the end of July.

Banks

As Egor Lazutkin told OVD-Info, in the database with personal data of the participants in the summer protests, published in the Comrade Major telegram channel, there was the name of his girlfriend. However, the phone number was not hers, but Lazutkin's. The young man believes that the information in the database could have leaked from VTB Bank.

According to him, a few days before the database was published, he received a call from a man who introduced himself as a bank employee. He asked Lazutkin's girlfriend to answer the phone. The young man was not surprised: he thought that the girl, when registering at the bank, indicated this number as an additional one.

The database of "Comrade Major" included both participants in the protests on July 27 and August 3, as well as people who signed for independent candidates for deputies, as well as journalists. The base has also been used as a tool of intimidation or perhaps a planned provocation. Before the action on August 10, people from the base were sent SMS with an appeal to disguise themselves during the action and unite to coordinate actions.

Courts

In the wake of the summer protests, Moscow courts received more than 2,300 administrative cases against protesters. According to the standard procedure in the courts, people are given to sign a protocol explaining their rights. It says, for example, about the right to get acquainted with the materials and the right to an interpreter if the proceedings are not conducted in your native language. But recently, at the bottom of such receipts, the phrase began to appear: “I admit my guilt, I repent of my deed.”

According to OVD-Info lawyer Ekaterina Selezneva, this is arbitrariness: “Of course, it is impossible to sign such a thing - to the question of carefully reading all the papers before signing. But this is unlikely to affect the filing of a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights: this paper is illegal and non-procedural in itself. On it - or rather, even on the actions of the judge, if it is given to sign in the trial - you need to complain to the chairman of the court and then to the Qualification Board of Judges.