The court fined residents of Sterlitamak for a picket with a poster “Khabarovsk, we are with you”

On August 12, the Sterlitamak City Court fined civil activists Yuri Antropov and Salavat Asylguzhin because of a picket in support of Khabarovsk residents. The resolutions were published on the court’s website, but the date of the picket was hidden from them.

The court found Antropov and Asylguzhin guilty under the article on organizing an uncoordinated action (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code) and imposed fines of 10 thousand rubles.

The YouTube channel “One World” published a video of the action on July 28. In the recording, one of the activists is holding a poster “Khabarovsk, we are with you,” while another is standing nearby.

• Since July 11, residents of the Khabarovsk Territory have been holding actions in support of ex-governor Sergei Furgal, who was arrested on suspicion of organizing murders. The procession on July 11 through the streets of Khabarovsk to the building of the regional government, according to various estimates, gathered from 5 to 35 thousand people. The police did not interfere with the protesters, and there were no arrests.
• 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 .