The St. Petersburg City Court declared illegal the refusal of lawyer Alexei Kalugin to see the detainees after laying flowers at the Lenin monument on November 7, 2021. Lawyer Sergei Podolsky, representing the interests of his colleague, reported this to OVD-Info.

National Bolsheviks On the day of the anniversary of the October Revolution, police officers in St. Petersburg Andrei Dmitriev and three other activists of the Other Russia. Dmitriev was charged with organizing an unapproved event (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code) for laying flowers, and the others were charged with drinking alcohol in a public place (Article 20.20 of the Administrative Code). At the same time, the police refused to allow the lawyer who came to see the detainees. Subsequently, the courts terminated the administrative cases of the activists (,).

detained twice . on March 29, 2023, Moscow District Court, illegal denial of admission The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kalininsky district filed an appeal against this decision, which was rejected by the city court. During the trial in the court of first instance, the defendants from the police department, Roman Batenkov and Leonid Vuiko, never appeared at the hearings, which is why the Moscow District Court fined them three thousand rubles on November 23, 2022.

The court in St. Petersburg finally declared illegal the refusal of a lawyer to see detainees in 2021