In Budyonnovsk today Lyudmila Bogatenkova, head of the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of Budyonnovsk and the Budyonnovsky District "Mothers of the Prikumye", was arrested and placed in a pre-trial detention center. This was reported on the website of the Citizen and Army project. The office of the organization was searched, at the same time Bogatenkova was charged under Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud).

New criminal article Legislators introduced a criminal article for “repeated” (that is, “previously... more than twice within 180 days ” ) prosecution under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. So how many times must a court find a person guilty of a violation at a rally in order for a criminal case to be opened against him?

He came to scold the king On the evening of August 27, 2014, on the day when it became known about the beginning of the advance of the pro-Russian troops in the direction of Mariupol, the Moscow activist Dmitry Monakhov wrote on his Twitter account the following: “I am a Russian. Not cattle. Not a killer. And not the occupier. I am ashamed that Putin is my president. At 9.00 I go to the arena against the war.

In July 2014, trying to understand the essence of the next amendments to the Law on rallies, the OTD-info discovered in their text many controversial, contradictory and intriguing moments, ready to endure even professional lawyers. We sent a list of naive questions to the agreement and legal department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which made up a positive review of this law, and now we publish its official answer (PDF).

He came to scold the king On the evening of August 27, 2014, on the day when it became known about the beginning of the advance of the pro-Russian troops in the direction of Mariupol, the Moscow activist Dmitry Monakhov wrote on his Twitter account the following: “I am a Russian. Not cattle. Not a killer. And not the occupier. I am ashamed that Putin is my president. At 9.00 I go to the arena against the war.