The case of the rally with Putin's dummy was brought to the Perm court

"The case of the mannequin with Putin's face" was submitted to the Leninsky District Court of Perm. This is reported by the telegram channel "Apology of Protest".

As specified in the channel, preliminary hearings were scheduled for April 17, 2020, but due to quarantine measures, the meeting was postponed to an unknown date.

At the end of March 2020, the media published excerpts from the indictment approved by the prosecutor's office in this case. According to the document, Alexander Kotov, a libertarian, and Danila Vasilyev and Alexander Shabarchin, activists of Navalny’s local headquarters, “due to political, ideological hostility, and also based on the hostility of a social group - residents of the Russian Federation who support the activities of Russian President V.V. Putin” committed a gross violation of public order. They are charged with hooliganism committed by a group of persons (part 2 of article 213 of the Criminal Code).

• In November 2018, an effigy of Vladimir Putin in a prison uniform with the inscriptions “Liar” and “War criminal Pynya V.V.” was tied to an electric lighting pole in Perm. According to investigators, "unidentified persons, expressing clear disrespect for society based on political hatred or enmity, grossly violated public order."
• On the day the effigy was installed, Alexander Kotov was detained because he filmed the action on his phone. the next day after the action Shabarchin was detained . Shabarchin is also suspected of hanging an image of Putin on the city Christmas tree, under which unknown persons left leaky boxes with the inscriptions “VAT 20 percent” and “self-employment tax.”
• All three defendants in the case, Kotov, Vasiliev and Shabarchin, were searched, during which they confiscated their equipment, and Vasiliev also had his mother's phone number.
• OVD-Info spoke about other stories of pressure in connection with the mention of the president or the use of his image at public events.