A participant in the January 23 rally was charged with assaulting an Orthodox activist

Police detained Yegor Moskalev, a participant in the action on January 23 in Moscow, as part of a criminal case. He was charged with an attack on an Orthodox activist during protests. This is what Open Media is about.

reported The publication does not name the date of the arrest, however, in the pro-government telegram channel “Kremlin Laundress” there is information about the arrest of a protester without specifying the name on March 23.

appeared Moskalev told Open Media that 11 security officials took part in his arrest, among them were FSB officers, police officers and investigators. They came to the protester’s home at five in the morning.

Moskalev was charged with hooliganism motivated by political hatred (clause “b” of Part 1 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code): according to investigators, during the “Freedom for Navalny!” he beat an activist of the Orthodox movement “Forty Sorokov”. “Open Media” writes that the victim has no claims against Moskalev. Moskalev described the episode with the activist this way: “It can be seen from all the cameras that I ran 50 meters through the crowd to this man on the pole. He was waiting alone under a pillar to soften his fall, but at the same time, of course, there was a desire to hit him. But I didn’t want to harm his health like those who kicked him in the head when he was already lying down. After he fell, I sat on him and hit him with my hand twice. But when he saw that ten people were kicking him in the head, he decided to disperse the crowd and preserve his health.”

The protester was given a preventive measure in the form of a written undertaking not to leave the place.

• A series of protests took place across Russia in connection with Alexei Navalny. The most massive actions took place in and in. The security forces reacted harshly to the protests: on January 23 they detained, and on January 31 -. On the day the sentence in the Yves Rocher case was changed to a real one, near the Moscow City Court building and in the center of Moscow, including journalists. arrests Saturday January 23 Sunday January 31 more than 4,000 people more than 5,500 were detained - In total, at least 90 criminal cases were opened across the country in the wake of the protests over the trial of Alexei Navalny.