A court in St. Petersburg sentenced a supporter of the Libertarian Party to 7 days of arrest

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg found Alexei Nikolaev, a member of the Steering Committee of the local branch of the Libertarian Party (LPR), guilty of organizing or holding a public event without approval (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by North-West. MBH Media" with reference to the press secretary of the decision maker Denis Lugovsky.

Nikolaev was sentenced to 7 days of administrative arrest.

• Alexey Nikolaev was detained on August 1 while “feeding the pigeons,” as protesters call the actions in support of the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal. The detainee was left in the police department until the trial.
• Protests on August 1 took place throughout the country. In total, according to our data, 70 protesters were detained in 14 cities. We kept it online and published a list of those detained and a text on the results of the actions.
• The then-current governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Sergei Furgal, was detained on July 9 by FSB officers on suspicion of involvement in a number of contract killings. He was taken to Moscow, where, by decision of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow, he was placed in custody until September 9. On July 16, the Moscow City Court rejected the appeal of Furgal’s defense and recognized this decision as legal. On July 20, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Furgal’s resignation from the post of governor and appointed Furgal’s fellow party member in the LDPR, Mikhail Degtyarev, to this post as interim, Mediazona reported .