The court imposed a fine on Yevgeny Roizman under the article on cooperation with an “undesirable organization”

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Yekaterinburg fined the former mayor of the city, Evgeny Roizman, five thousand rubles under the article on cooperation with an “undesirable organization” (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by Ural. MBH Media".

The reason for the fine was the politician’s participation in the “Municipal Russia” forum, which took place on March 13, 2021. Then the police came to the event organized by the United Democrats. According to OVD-Info, law enforcement officers detained more than 190 people at the forum; we published lists of those detained. Because of the announcement of the event by the coordinator of Open Russia, the security forces considered that it was being organized by an “undesirable” organization. At the same time, the Open Russia movement itself is not an “undesirable organization.”

“I know my country, I have no illusions. This is a completely new type of justice, when it makes no difference what you say, what you do, how your lawyer works,” Evgeniy Roizman commented on the court decision to Ural. MBH Media".

• On April 26, 2017, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office recognized a number of organizations associated with Mikhail Khodorkovsky as undesirable. The list includes OR Otkrytaya Rossia, Open Russia Civic Movement, Open Russia and Institute of Modern Russia, Inc, registered in the UK, registered in the USA. Russian authorities believe that the Open Russia movement is related to these legal entities, and therefore is also an undesirable organization on the territory of the Russian Federation.
• United Democrats is an independent project that helps municipal candidates get elected. The project not only trains candidates, but also accompanies already elected opposition deputies in their work.
• On September 9, 2020, searches were conducted in five regions of the coordinators and candidates of the United Democrats project. In total, the police came to 23 addresses. Among other things, the search took place in the rented apartment of lawyer Andrei Davydov. The search orders were issued by the Basmanny Court of Moscow. All of them were involved in the YUKOS case .
• On August 8 and 9, 2020, security forces disrupted lectures of the United Democrats in Ivanovo and Vladimir . On August 3, 2020, riot police conducted a search at the Kazan headquarters of the United Democrats as part of a criminal case for deliberately false reporting of a terrorist act. On July 27, Center E operatives tried to seal the entrance to the headquarters building, allegedly as part of a criminal case on terrorism. Having failed to fulfill their threats, the security forces left the headquarters, but “promised to return.” On July 25, at the OD headquarters, security forces detained 17 people “on suspicion of involvement in a knowingly false report about a planned terrorist act.” On July 3, the police broke into the United Democrats election headquarters in Kazan and conducted a search. Activists believe that they were trying to plant drugs on them.