The Chelyabinsk court returned the case to the police for the rally in support of Navalny

The Central District Court of Chelyabinsk returned to the police the materials of the administrative case of local resident Raisa Morozova, who was detained at a rally in support of Alexei Navalny. This was reported by Apology of Protest with reference to lawyer Andrei Lepekhin.

The police regarded the picket with panties in their hands near the local FSB building as petty hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code), detained Morozova and drew up a report. In the document they wrote that the activist “grossly violated public order, showing clear disrespect for society, deliberately, out of hooligan motives, demonstrated men’s underpants, pulled on a stick, for one hour near the FSB building, attracting the attention of passing citizens, that is, she committed an offense.” petty hooliganism."

The court did not accept the case for consideration and returned the materials to the police.

• On December 23, in Moscow, near the Kuznetsky Most metro station, activist Artem Gordyukhin was detained , holding a rally in support of Alexei Navalny, holding underpants in his hands. A report was drawn up against him under the article on violation of the “high alert regime” (Article 20.6.1 of the Administrative Code). The panties with which he carried out the action were confiscated. The day before, director Vitaly Mansky was detained near the FSB building in Moscow, who was also standing with panties in his hands. He was released from the police on an obligation to appear to draw up a report. Mansky's underpants were confiscated as evidence in the case.
• On December 21, Navalny told how, before the investigation into his poisoning was released, hecalled FSB officer Konstantin Kudryavtsev, introducing himself as assistant to Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev. Kudryavtsev told over the phone the details of the failed assassination attempt on the oppositionist; from the conversation one can assume that the poison could have been applied to the inner surface of the oppositionist’s underpants.
• On December 14, 2020, an investigation was published by a group of journalists from Bellingcat , The Insider and CNN with the participation of Der Spiegel and the Anti-Corruption Foundation founded by politician Alexei Navalny. Investigators found that a group of FSB officers with medical training had been monitoring Navalny since 2017, and that security forces tried at least three times to poison Navalny with a nerve agent from the Novichok group.
• Navalny became ill on the morning of August 20 on a plane flying from Tomsk to Moscow. He was dropped off in Omsk and taken to a local emergency hospital. According to Navalny’s associates, there were plainclothes operatives on the hospital grounds. After long negotiations, Navalny’s relatives ensured that on August 22 he was transported to the German Charité clinic. Two days later, representatives of the clinic announced that they had found signs of a chemical warfare agent from the Novichok group in his body. In October, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) confirmed the presence of traces of poison from the Novichok group in Navalny’s tests. The politician spent about two weeks in a coma.