The Central District Court of Simferopol arrested for two months a new, fifth, person involved in the "May 3 Case" - 34-year-old businessman Edem Osmanov. Report "Crimea. Realii” with reference to the head of the Central Election Committee Kurultai of the Crimean Tatar people Zair Smedlyaev. Osmanov was detained on January 19 at a gas station in the village of Chernomorskoye. A white Gazelle drove up to the car in which the businessman and his family were.

As it became known to OVD-Info, Mark Galperin, accused under Art. 212.1 of the Criminal Code - “Repeated violation of the established procedure for organizing or holding a meeting, rally, demonstration, procession or picketing” - the action on December 5 on Myasnitskaya Street and the action on August 6, January 10 and 15 on Manezhnaya Square are charged. Mark Galperin is currently in special detention center No. 2, where he is serving a 38-day arrest on January 10 and 15.

According to the activists who visited Ildar Dadin and Mark Galperin, Oleg Basov and Yevgeny Avilov, artists from the Blue Rider, who received 10 days for pouring “holy water” on the mausoleum, were put in their cell. Residents of St. Petersburg Basov and Avilov were not prepared to serve their arrest in Moscow, they do not have the necessary things, a package is being prepared for them.

Elena Zakharova. Photo: Vasily Petrov Since the beginning of 2015, people who are defending the right to freedom of assembly in Russia have existed in a new reality - amendments that have entered into force last summer, tightening the punishment for violations of mass events, began to be successfully applied. This was preceded by mass detentions in Moscow on December 30. OVD-Info publishes the story of Elena Zakharova about the detentions of the last weeks.

Deputies from the United Russia party Dmitry Vyatkin and Vladimir Pligin and Darosos Aleksey Ageev on January 20, a project of a new common part of the Code of Administrative Offenses was made to the State Duma. The deputies proposed to share all offenses, depending on the harm to public interests, into “gross”, “significant” and “less significant” ones. Although the text does not have a list of gross offenses, the project obviously refers to them violations at rallies.