Security officials apply both administrative articles and criminal ones against artists. The article is selected arbitrarily. The justice of the Oktyabrsky district Vladimir sentenced the artist Anton Ganyushkin to eight months restriction of freedom in the criminal case of anti -war graffiti. The activist was charged with vandalism for political reasons (part 2 of article 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The Vladimir activist said that he was not provided with medical care in the investigative insulator. The Vladimir activist, a supporter of the Left Bloc, Ruslan Abasov, released from the pre -trial detention center, where he was in the criminal case of the action “Happy Chkista” near the FSB building, spoke about the “torture” conditions of detention in the pre -trial detention center.