Rioters on the day of Putin's inauguration demand that the sentence be overturned
On September 16, the Supreme Court of Russia will decide on the possible resumption of proceedings against the leaders of the “Left Front” Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhaev, who were previously found guilty of organizing riots on Bolotnaya Square on the day of Vladimir Putin’s inauguration in 2012, but subsequently challenged the verdict in the European Court of Justice. Human Rights Court and obtained a decision to pay compensation in the amount of 9 and 11 thousand euros.
The resuscitation of the so-called “Bolotnaya case” was initiated by the lawyers of Razvozhaev and Udaltsov themselves. They, referring to the ECHR verdict, want to have the sentence overturned for their clients, who in 2014 received 4 years and 6 months in prison by decision of the Moscow City Court.
It must be taken into account that in the overwhelming majority of cases in which the plaintiffs, citizens of Russia, oppose the Russian state, the ECHR, for one reason or another, finds the Russian Federation wrong, which indicates the bias of this institution. At the same time, according to the adopted amendments to the Russian Constitution, now the decisions of international institutions cannot prevail over the decisions of Russian institutions.
Let us recall that in the winter of 2011, after the elections to the State Duma, the opposition in the Russian Federation held mass rallies in Moscow, claiming falsification of the results of the State Duma elections.
Then a protest coalition was formed, consisting of pro-Western liberals, nationalists and non-systemic leftists. The coalition also included the Left Front, whose leaders were Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhaev.
After the presidential elections held on March 4, 2012, in which Vladimir Putin won, on May 6, the Coordination Council of the Opposition announced the “March of Millions” action against the inauguration of the Russian president, which took place in many large cities of Russia.
In Moscow, a procession was announced that would follow a route agreed with the authorities, but law enforcement officers left a narrow corridor for the protesters, which caused outrage among them. At first, the leaders of the action, Udaltsov, Navalny and Boris Nemtsov, responded by calling their supporters for a sit-in protest, but later there were calls to break through the cordon, and here the versions differ, whether they came from the organizers of the “March of Millions”, who deny this, or became a spontaneous initiative. As a result, clashes with the police began, after which more than four hundred people were detained. Criminal cases were also initiated against more than three dozen people for active resistance to law enforcement officers, many of them received real sentences.
Udaltsov has continued his political activities since his release from prison. As of early September, he has already announced new protests as part of a "mobilization in support of Khabarovsk."
Participants in the riots on the day of Putin's inauguration demand that the sentence be overturned.