The investigation of the criminal case against the artist Pyotr Pavlensky, instituted after the “Freedom” action in February 2014, has been completed. Pavlensky is accused of vandalism: according to the authors of the socio-psychological and linguistic expertise, the artist, setting fire to tires on the Small Konyushenny Bridge in St. Petersburg, desecrated it and also showed disrespect for society. This was reported on April 15 by Interfax.

Roskomnadzor intends to prosecute only those cases of public display of Nazi paraphernalia or symbols when it was carried out for the purpose of propaganda. The statement, published on April 15 on the department's website, says that a legal and linguistic examination of the law on extremism came to the conclusion that the demonstration of prohibited symbols without the purpose of propaganda is not a manifestation of extremism. This applies in particular to historical research.

Perm artist Alexander Zhunev, author of graffiti “Gagarin. Crucifixion" in Perm, summoned to the prosecutor's office on April 16. As Zhunev told the Interfax agency, he received a phone call to invite him for a conversation. “As far as I understand, the prosecutors also intend to find out the motives of my work,” the artist said. The prosecutor's office of the Leninsky district of Perm began checking his work. In addition, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs continue to check.

Lawyer Andrey Stebenev, appointed by the state to Svetlana Davydova accused of treason, has been deprived of her lawyer status. on It is reported April 15, RAPS. The Moscow Chamber of Lawyers saw in Stebenev's actions a violation of professional ethics and considered that he provided legal assistance in an improper way, said member of the chamber Henry Reznik.

Eight activists of the "Communists of Russia" party, who were detained on April 14 in Stavropol during a rally against political repression against the Communists, were found guilty on April 15 of violating the established procedure for holding a public event, writes "Caucasian Knot". The Leninsky District Court of Stavropol considered the cases of Dmitry Pechinsky and Viktor Makeev and sentenced them to the maximum sentence of 15 days of arrest each.

In Stavropol, on the afternoon of April 15, police officers took Mikhail Abrahamyan, secretary of the local branch of the Communists of Russia party, from the hospital and took him away in an unknown direction, the reports . Caucasian Knot According to his fellow party member Eduard Marshankulov, at about 3:30 pm, police officers took Abrahamyan out in hospital clothes and without shoes, put him in an ambulance and took him away in an unknown direction. On April 11, Abrahamyan was detained .

On April 15, the head of the Moscow regional security department, Alexei Mayorov, said that any uncoordinated opposition events in the center of Moscow on April 19 "will be regarded as unauthorized actions." His words were quoted by the Vedomosti newspaper, citing Interfax.

Krasnodar environmental activist Evgeny Vitishko, sentenced to three years in prison on charges of damaging the fence of Tkachev’s dacha, intends to continue his hunger strike until the process of his release begins. His lawyer Sergei Loktev announced this on April 15. OVD-InfoVitishko went on a hunger strike on April 7 after the Supreme Court refused to review the decision to replace suspended imprisonment with detention.

Anatoly Vtorushin, a 70-year-old resident of Tomsk, a former school teacher, accused of organizing “uncoordinated” solo pickets in support of those convicted in the Bolotnaya case, was hospitalized from the courtroom on April 14. This was reported on April 15 by the local news agency TV2. In February 2014, Vtorushyn, along with other picketers, was summoned to the police for an interview. After that, three administrative cases were brought against him for organizing uncoordinated pickets.

The deputy chairman of the Saratov unit of the Yabloko party, Alexander Zhurbin, was detained on April 15 during a public hearing in the building of the administration of the Frunze district. This was reported by the publication "Fourth power". According to the publication, at the hearing, Zhurbin spoke out against the construction of the church on a place previously intended for the library, after which they refused to give a word on the following issue.

On April 15, the Kirsanovsky District Court of the Tambov Region denied the Kuban eco-activist Yevgeny Vitishko parole. This was reported in the broadcast of the Environmental Watch for the North Caucasus from the courtroom.

Investigators have supplemented the materials of the case of Daria Polyudova, which was returned by the prosecutor’s office on March 31 due to the lack of indications of the motive for the crime, with the fourth volume. It explains Polyudova’s actions by “personal hostility towards the current president” and “hatred of the current political regime in the Russian Federation.” The Kommersant newspaper writes about this on April 15.

In the Ulyanovsk region, on April 11, political prisoner Yevgeny Afanasyev, sentenced to 12.5 years in prison on charges of transferring information about the Bulava missile to China, died at the age of 63. Afanasyev died of a heart attack in the Dimitrovgrad city hospital. The Kommersant newspaper wrote about this on April 15 with reference to the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Ulyanovsk Region.

On April 15, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow extended until June 11 the period of house arrest of Konstantin Yankauskas, an associate of Alexei Navalny, a municipal deputy of the Zyuzino district, thus satisfying the petition of the investigation. The court decision was published by Yankauskas' lawyer Sergei Panchenko. At the same time, the court lifted some restrictions, allowing Jankauskas to spend two hours a month on receiving citizens, as well as to correspond on deputy issues.