Activist of the party “The Other Russia” E.V. Limonov was detained in St. Petersburg

In St. Petersburg, police detained Igor Yakovlev, a member of the Other Russia party E.V. Limonov. He himself told OVD-Info about this.

Employees came to work to the activist and took him to police department No. 78. At the moment, it is not known what Yakovlev is charged with - he suggested that a protocol could be drawn up against him due to participation in an unapproved event.

A friend of the activist, who also contacted OVD-Info, believes that his detention is related to the April 5 action. On that day, the National Bolsheviks came to the representative office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: they hung out a banner “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a den of traitors”, and also “hung” a doll with a sign “I am Russian, I was betrayed by the Kremlin.” As writes , the action symbolizes “compatriots abandoned by domestic officials outside the borders of the Russian Federation.” the LENINGRIB telegram channel

After the action, was detained - he was held by the police for almost two days, after which he was released. party member Nikita Chelyshev

Telegram-channel "LENINGRIB" wrote that then the police tried to find out the whereabouts of Igor Yakovlev. Unknown people called his relatives several times and asked how to find him.

16:18 Aleksey Kalugin, a lawyer from OVD-Info, went to the detainee.

17:26 Public defender Vladimir Vasilenko also went to Yakovlev's department.

18:51 Aleksey Kalugin said that a protocol had been drawn up against Yakovlev under the article on organizing an uncoordinated action (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). He is left with the police until the trial.

9 April 17:25 The hearing in the Kalugin case was postponed to 22 April. The activist was released. about it Writes "North-West. MBKh Media.

• The Other Russia is an unregistered party founded in the summer of 2010 by members of the National Bolshevik Party (NBP), which was banned in Russia in 2007. Members of the party are called "National Bolsheviks" or "Limonovites" (after the founder of the party, Eduard Limonov). At the end of September 2020, the party announced its self-dissolution and re-establishment under the name "The Other Russia of E.V. Limonov".