Prominent Moscow Maidan activists placed under arrest
The Izmailovo Court of Moscow arrested the head of the Krasnoselsky Municipal District of Moscow, liberal Ilya Yashin, for 15 days for disobedience to a police officer.
Znak reports this, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
In addition, Yashin was fined 20 thousand rubles for participating in an unauthorized rally.
Yashin was detained along with the director of Open Russia (recognized as an undesirable organization in the Russian Federation) Andrei Pivovarov during an unauthorized rally on Sunday in support of opposition blogger Alexei Navalny.
The court also arrested Pivovarov himself for 29 days.
Both were also questioned as witnesses in a criminal case on rendering vehicles or means of communication unusable.
"This is very funny. He was jumping up and down so much that he wanted to be arrested and punished. But the police walked by and didn’t notice. I ignored it. And then we saw…”, Sergei Karnaukhov, associate professor of the RANEPA department, commented on the liberal’s arrest.
Last November, Yashin, together with Navalny, demanded that the European Union Foreign Affairs Committee adopt new sanctions against Russia.
Previously, he announced a paid subscription to his YouTube channel, which, according to experts, was an attempt to hide funding from abroad.
The Krasnoselsky municipal district headed by Yashin is unprofitable; the district budget deficit, according to the official report for 2019, is 2,5 million rubles. However, this does not prevent the opposition leader from increasing his personal salary fund: from 1,8 million in 2018 to 2 million in 2019, excluding the quarterly bonus of 100%.
In 2014, Yashin flew to the Maidan in Kyiv and supported the participants in the anti-Russian coup.
Prominent Moscow Maidan protesters placed under arrest