Those convicted in the Bolotnaya case appealed the double punishment to the Constitutional Court
Alexey Gaskarov and Andrey Barabanov, sentenced respectively to three years and six months and three years and seven months in prison on charges of violence against a government official and participation in mass riots, appealed to the Constitutional Court with a complaint about the possibility of qualifying the same criminal event simultaneously under several articles, if the norms of one already include another.