Over 10 years in Russia, 60 thousand cases on protesters have been opened - research

Over the past 10 years, Russian courts have brought at least 60 thousand cases on protesters, 16 thousand of them over the past two months, showed a study by Novaya Gazeta. Europe for a decade of protests in Bolotnaya Square.

Since February 24, protesters against the war spent at least 3.5 thousand days under the arrest, for the phrase "no war" Russians spent under administrative arrest in the amount of 2.5 years. He was issued fines for more than 100 million rubles, of which 55 million were already paid to the state, the study said. According to the article on the "discrediting of the army" of them - only 7.5 million.

At the same time, 33 million rubles of fines falls on Muscovites, another 10 million for Petersburgers.

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the average fine for the anti -war position has grown almost three times. According to the researchers, this happened mainly due to the articles introduced on March 4 on the "discrediting of the army", which provides for fines up to 100 thousand rubles.

Before the rally on Bolotnaya Square in 2012, a fine for a public protest, for example, did not exceed two thousand rubles, and the arrests were imposed in very rare cases. A month after this rally, the maximum fine grew ten times, and two years later (after the annexation of Crimea), the fine grew to a million rubles, and the maximum term of arrest was up to 30 days. Then a criminal punishment appeared - the so -called "Dadinsky article", which provides for up to five years in the colony.

Now several protocols are often drawn up per person - including for the "discrediting of the army", participation in an inconsistent action, a violation of anti -icing restrictions and disobedience to the police officer. This fact, according to lawyers, contradicts the constitutional ban on double punishment for one offense.

Since the beginning of March, criminal liability has been introduced for an anti -war position up to 15 years in a colony under the Fake Law. Two weeks after the entry into force of this law, three Russians became defendants in criminal cases due to posts in social networks.

Researchers conclude that an unprecedented military censorship has now been introduced in Russia, and the key steps to tighten repressive measures to protesters began after a rally on Bolotnaya.

At the same time, as the head of the “first department” Ivan Pavlov notes, the state suppresses any forms of protests all 20 years of Putin's reign. "The 2012 year is a convenient reference point, but the" marches of disagreements "dispersed and before that. Just at first, many did not notice how the power of the Chekists was changing the country for themselves, and at some point it was already impossible to ignore," Pavlov concludes.