A co-author of Nemtsov's reports filed a complaint of unlawful persecution
Leonid Martynyuk, a member of the RPR-PARNAS party and the Solidarity movement, who, together with Boris Nemtsov, prepared the reports “The Life of a Galley Slave” and “The Winter Olympics in the Subtropics”, filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights against unlawful persecution. In August last year, Martynyuk was detained in Krasnodar for petty hooliganism and received 10 days of arrest. He later emigrated from Russia.