The ECHR awarded 5 thousand euros due to violations in the 2011 elections to the Krasnodar, who was an observer on them

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) awarded compensation in the amount of 5 thousand euros of Krasnodar residents of Krasnodar Maxim Drozdov for violation of the right to free elections. This was reported in Facebook by lawyer Julia Fedotova, representing his interests in the ECHR.

Fedotova clarified Novaya Gazeta that in the complaint of Drozdov it was a question of elections to the State Duma of 2011. The ECHR recognized the violation of Article 3 of the first protocol of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Drozdov in the 2011 elections was an observer from the Yabloko party, says Sota. He noticed falsifications in which the candidate from the LDPR lost his voice. After that, Drozdov was given an incorrectly certified copy of the vote count of votes on the polling station. Krasnodar went to court, where it turned out that his copy of the protocol had no legal force. The representative of Drozdov turned to the ECHR in 2013.

In 2018, the Krasnodar became a defendant in the criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("excitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity"). This happened after Drozdov published a comic poem about a teacher who denies a god that the public burns in a fictitious village on the VKontakte social network. As a result, the investigation came to the conclusion that the poem is “ironic in nature, does not call for any specific actions, refers the reader to the events of the distant past”, and the case was terminated.