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In Moscow, near the Presidential Administration, a musician from the group “Arkady Kots” and a political leader were detained
In Moscow, near the building of the Presidential Administration, the musician of the Arkady Kots group Kirill Medvedev and the municipal deputy Sergei Tsukasov were detained. This was reported to OVD-Info by RusNews journalist Olga Sapronova.
Medvedev and Tsukasov held pickets against the war with Ukraine. They were taken to the Kitai-Gorod Police Department. Mikhail Biryukov, a lawyer from OVD-Info, came to help the detainees.
18:00 A protocol was drawn up against Tsukasov on a repeated violation of the rules for holding an action (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), and against Medvedev - under part 5 of the same article. Tsukasov was left at the police station, while Medvedev was taken to the Tagansky police station, where they are going to draw up another protocol against him because of the action in Troitsky Forest.
18:40 Sergey Telnov, a lawyer from OVD-Info, is going to Medvedev's department.
20:05 Medvedev was released from the Tagansky police department, he was charged with an article on violation of the rules for participation in a public event (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to participation in a rally in Troitsky Forest on February 12.
- On February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the recognition of the independence of the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics, after which Russia signed friendship treaties with the LNR and the DNR. Decrees on the recognition of the LPR and DPR, signed by Putin , among other things, provide that the armed forces of the Russian Federation must "perform peacekeeping functions" in the republics. During the night after the president's address, information was received from various sources that Russian troops had entered the territory of the LPR and DPR; this is officially denied . Earlier, the leadership of the self-proclaimed republics announced the evacuation of part of the inhabitants, they are placed on the territory of various Russian regions. In the LPR and DPR, the mobilization of the population of military age began.
- On February 22, Russian oppositionists - representatives of PARNAS, Alexei Minyailo, Dmitry Tsorionov (Enteo) and others - filed an application with the Moscow City Hall for an anti-war rally on March 5, numbering 150,000 people.
- In the Trinity Forest (New Moscow), eco-activists and caring local residents are regularly on duty, who oppose the cutting down of some trees to build a school. On February 12, the police detained more than 10 people who were on duty in the forest. The court then imposed fines and arrests on them, defense with the support of OVD-Info was carried out by lawyer Ekaterina Morozova and lawyers Olga Bukhina and Maria Krasova.
- On February 17 , 18 and 21 , the police detained the participants of the gathering on February 12 in different districts of Moscow and drew up reports on them.