In Kalmykia, a court fined a participant in a protest against the appointment of a new city mayor

The Elista city court fined activist Sanal Ubushiev 12,000 rubles for participating in a rally against the appointment of Acting Mayor Dmitry Trapeznikov. It is reported by MBH Media.

The court found Ubushiev guilty under the article on violation of the rules for holding an action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) for the September 29 rally. Earlier, the same court terminated proceedings against Ubushiev for participating in an action with the same theme, which took place on October 1. At that time, the court did not find any corpus delicti in the actions of the activist.

“This is a special place for holding public events, there is no need to submit a notice of holding if there are no more than a hundred participants. I was the first to be convicted for participating in this rally. But how could I, as a participant in the rally, know that there were more than a hundred people there? They simply introduced formal grounds to condemn us, ”Ubushiev reports the words of the publication.

• On October 1, in Elista, on the territory of the cultural complex "Pagoda of Seven Days" in front of the Government House, was held a protest against Trapeznikov . The day before, the police warned the activists about the “inadmissibility of violations of the law”, and in social networks the townspeople were invited not to the action, but to the “prayer for the well-being of Elista”.
• At the end of September, at the suggestion of the head of Kalmykia, Batu Khasikov Trapeznikov, the former head of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), was appointed head of the Elista administration. After that, several gatherings took place in the city demanding to remove him from office.