In Nizhny Novgorod, picket participants were detained against amendments to the Constitution

In Nizhny Novgorod, the police detained Alexei Bubnov during a single picket against amendments to the Constitution. He himself informed about this in the legal bot OVD-Info.

The detainee was delivered to the police department No. 5.

16:30 a lawyer from the OVD-Info Nikolai Kostin is put forward to the detainee.

18:05 The detainee Alexei Bubnov was released from the police department with a protocol for disobedience to the requirements of police officers (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), allegedly he did not show them a passport. This was announced by the ATD-Info by the activist himself.

According to him, the police did not allow a witness who had a video of the detention, and also did not allow them to familiarize themselves with the original protocol and indicate inaccuracies in it.

18:05 The police detained another Nizhny Novgorod activist Andrei Sorochkin during a picket against amendments. This was announced by the OTD-Info by the chairman of the local branch of Memorial Arkady Galker.

According to him, Sorochkin stood with a poster on Minin Street for an hour, after which he was detained and delivered to department No. 5. They took explanations from the activist and released without drawing up a protocol.

Sorochkin’s poster was seized.

The heading of the news has been changed in connection with information about the detention of Andrei Sorochkin.

• The State Duma on March 11 approved the bill on amendments to the Constitution initiated by Vladimir Putin. The amendments were approved at all -Russian voting, the main stage of which was held on July 1, 2020. According to the CEC, the amendments to the Constitution supported almost 78% of Russians. Researcher of the statistics of Russian elections, Sergei Shpilkin, told the Project to the independent media about possible falsifications.