The prosecutor's office sent the performance "spring" due to violations by participants in the movement

On December 30, the prosecutor’s office of the Frunze district of St. Petersburg sent a submission to the federal coordinator of Vesna Bogdan Litvin because of the violations identified during the audit that the participants in the “Vesna” allegedly allowed on behalf of the movement. The organization reported this on its VKontakte page.

In the course of the “analysis of the activity” of the movement, the prosecutor's office found that “activists of a public organization from 2016 to the expired period of 2019 were repeatedly brought to criminal and administrative responsibility, including for violation of the procedure for public events.”

The prosecutor's office also indicated the holding of some Vesna activists accountable under the article on participation in the activities of an undesirable organization (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to the spread of publications of Open Russia.

There is also an indication of the prosecution of two members of “Spring” to criminal liability, but the prosecutor’s office does not explain why, in their opinion, this is related to the activity of the movement itself.

In addition, the department also writes in the notion of the decision of the Frunze Court, which on February 5, 2019 recovered from Bogdan Litvin and the coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters Denis Mikhailov 7.3 million rubles. This amount of damage allegedly caused the action to St. Petersburg on May 5, 2018. The court decided that Litvin and Mikhailov were its organizers and satisfied the claim of the prosecutor's office.

“The activities of activists of a public organization are carried out on its behalf in violation of federal legislation, these persons on a systemic basis are brought to administrative and civil liability for violation of public events and the commission of other offenses,” the prosecutor’s office concludes in the submission.

“Identified” violations, according to the prosecutor's office, indicate a low legal culture of activists, “the confrontation of the established system of law and the rules of conduct in modern society, as well as the lack of control by the organization for their activities and justifying illegal activity”.

The prosecutor demanded “take comprehensive measures” to eliminate these violations and “exclude this from now on”.

“Spring” in the answer to the representation of the prosecutor's office emphasized that she was not responsible for violations of the members of the movement, which they committed “on an individual basis”, and also has no connection with undesirable organizations.

“The coverage of the pursuit of political activists on the information resources of the movement does not mean consent with the views and statements of the persecuted citizens, or the approval of their statements or actions,” writes Bogdan Litvin, coordinator of Spring.

He also noted that Vesna plans to regularly take events to increase the level of legal culture of participants in the movement. Litvin invited representatives of the prosecutor's office to participate in such events.

• “The youth democratic movement“ Spring ”” exists without the formation of a legal entity. The participants in the movement are detained due to single pickets and fined for participating in various promotions or reposts of publications of Open Russia.