RSD (Russian Socialist Action) activist Filipp Galtsov was detained at a rally against Putin’s inauguration on May 6, 2012 in Moscow. He ended up in a paddy wagon with anarchist Stepan Zimin. The court decided to arrest Galtsov for five days, but he left the courthouse before the end of the hearing. In June, Zimin was placed in a pre-trial detention center on charges of participating in mass riots and using violence against a government official.

Three previous participants in the “tractor march” (Oleg Petrov, Nikolai Maslov and Sergei Vladimirov) were transferred from the temporary detention center of the Aksay district police department to a special detention center for administrative detainees in Novocherkassk. The Caucasian Knot talks about this with reference to lawyer Valentin Pyshkin. of the arrested writes Lawyer Pyshkin On August 26, he tried to meet with the convicts, but he was not allowed in.

On August 27, police representatives in Bakhchisaray tried to enter the house of Zevri Abseitov, who was arrested in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case. This was reported by Crimea. Realities" with reference to the head of the Central Election Commission of the Kurultai of the Crimean Tatars, Zair Smedlyaev. At that time, only elderly parents were in the house and they refused to let the police into the house. Law enforcement officials said they want to take explanations and conduct an inspection.

Hello! We continue to raise money for the work of the monitoring group. Thanks to everyone who has already supported us. You can help OVD-Info here . The most important event this week was the detention of farmers and truck drivers who participated in the “tractor march” to Moscow, organized by the Kuban movement “Polite Farmers”. Farmers from the Krasnodar region who wanted to complain to Putin about local officials were initially stopped every now and then on the road .

Philip Galtsov / Photo from the Archive of Galtsov Philip Galtsov is a political emigrant. He left Russia, as he was afraid of criminal prosecution in the “swamp case”. On August 14, an extremely strange story took place with him in the spirit of espionage detectives. OVD-Info publishes his story. Activist of the RSD (Russian Socialist Action) Philip Galtsov was detained at a rally against Putin's inauguration on May 6, 2012 in Moscow. He ended up in Avtosak with anarchist Stepan Zimin.