In Chelyabinsk, a participant in a rally in support of Khabarovsk was fined

The Sovetsky District Court of Chelyabinsk fined Inna Ponomareva, a participant in the rally in support of Khabarovsk protesters, five thousand rubles. Novaya Gazeta reports this.

The rally at which Ponomareva was detained took place on August 15, the activist was charged with violating the rules of participation in the rally (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

According to Ponomareva’s lawyer, the court had no evidence of guilt. “That’s why the court imposed a lower fine, 5 thousand instead of the minimum 10,000,” he said.

• Since July 11, residents of the Khabarovsk Territory and many other regions of Russia have been holding actions in support of Governor Sergei Furgal. 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. Until about July 18, the police almost did not interfere with the protesters. However, after this, security forces began to detain participants in the protests in Khabarovsk , Vladivostok , Komsomolsk-on-Amur and other cities. During the protest on August 15, a total of 21 people were detained in different cities.
• 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 .