In St. Petersburg, the security forces detained Andrey Olivieri, a picketer. He stood with a poster reading “The worst thing for a politician is to cling to your chair with your hands and teeth – V.V. Putin” at the Park Pobedy metro station. This was reported to OVD-Info by a friend of the detainee.

Olivieri is going to be delivered to OP No. 33 of the Moscow region.

21:44 Andrey Olivieri was charged with violating "coronavirus" restrictions (Art. 8.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of St. Petersburg). They let him go. Alexey Kalugin, a lawyer from OVD-Info, came to his aid.

In St. Petersburg, activists are regularly detained with pickets on various topics: against Putin , local legislators , in support of Navalny and other political prisoners . Also in the northern capital, participants in the indefinite protest action "Strategy-18", speaking in support of the Crimean Tatars, are often detained .
According to the federal law on rallies, it is not required to notify the authorities of a single picket and agree on a place for holding it. You can read more about the rules for holding a single picket in our instructions .

A picketer who spoke out against the permanence of power was detained in St. Petersburg