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 [KavkazUzel] Security forces detained at least 105 people in Russian regions at rallies in memory of Alexei Navalny, including four in Astrakhan, two in Sochi and one in Vladikavkaz, human rights activists reported today.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on March 1, a farewell to Alexei Navalny was held in Moscow, and then his funeral. A kilometer-long line lined up at the “Quiet My Sorrows” church, where Navalny’s funeral service took place. In different regions, including North Ossetia, by 16.00 Moscow time on March 1, security forces detained at least 21 people in connection with Navalny’s funeral, human rights activists reported.
On March 2, it became known that in Sochi, Mikhail Bormotov was detained by security forces at the monument to victims of repression, where he came on the day of Alexei Navalny’s funeral with flowers and a portrait of the oppositionist. The security forces issued a warning and released him, Bormotov himself said.
As of 10.24 Moscow time on March 3, 105 people have already been detained in 21 Russian cities in connection with Navalny’s funeral, the human rights project “OVD-Info”* reports on its website.
Among the cities of the North Caucasian Federal District and Southern Federal District where the arrests took place, the publication names Astrakhan, Sochi and Vladikavkaz. So, in Astrakhan there are at least four detainees, it is not yet known in which departments they are located.
There are two detainees in Sochi - Mikhail Bormotov and Elena Yalitova, who was allegedly taken to the Central District police department.
At least one person was detained in Vladikavkaz - Anna Kolesnikova, who was taken to city police department No. 2, the publication says.
Let us remind you that on February 16, Alexey Navalny died in a colony after, according to a statement by the Federal Penitentiary Service, his condition sharply worsened. Residents of Russian cities, including the North Caucasian Federal District and Southern Federal District, were persecuted for attempting to lay flowers in memory of Navalny at memorials to victims of political repression.
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Security forces prevented the author from laying flowers at the monument to the repressed
Police in Sochi did not allow a local resident to lay flowers at the monument to the repressed after Navalny’s funeral, saying that this was only permissible on the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression, and on other days it was considered an administrative violation.
As the " Caucasian Knot " wrote, on February 20, Sochi activist Grigory Uchkurov said that townspeople brought flowers to a spontaneous memorial to Alexei Navalny at the monument to victims of political repression, but police regularly cleared the monument of flowers. His words were confirmed by several other Sochi residents.
On February 23, Sochi residents tried to organize a memorial to Navalny at the monument to those killed in the Great Patriotic War, but the memorial was closed for repairs.
Police in Sochi did not allow a local resident to lay flowers at the memorial to victims of repression on March 2, the publication “7x7”* reported on the evening of the same day in its Telegram channel. “A 7x7 subscriber shared a video of six security officials guarding a monument to victims of political repression. She was denied the laying of flowers due to the fact that all commemorative events take place on October 30, when the Day of Remembrance of the Repressed was established in Russia,” the publication says.
In addition, security forces referred to regional law No. 608, saying that flowers would be considered “disposing of household waste in the wrong place.” “At the same time, the law does not mention punishment for household waste. Sochinka was threatened with an administrative charge for non-compliance with environmental protection requirements when handling waste,” the publication reported.
Law of the Krasnodar Territory No. 608-KZ “On Administrative Offenses”, adopted by the regional legislative assembly in 2003, is posted, in particular, on the website of the administration and city duma of Krasnodar. In the published version of the law, including in Chapter 7 “Administrative offenses in the field of environmental protection and natural resource management,” the release of household waste or similar actions is not listed among the violations.
The publication is illustrated with a video, the footage of which shows several employees of the National Guard and police officers approaching the girl filming the video. One of the policemen asked the girl for documents and asked why she came with flowers. The girl explained that she decided to lay flowers and asked what exactly she had violated. After this, another police officer entered the conversation.
“I’ll explain. You can lay flowers on memorial complexes on certain dates. The date for repressed persons is celebrated on October 30. At this time, October 30, you can come and lay flowers. On other days, if you lay flowers, it’s already will, according to Law 608 of the Krasnodar Territory, be considered as the release of household waste. And the release of household waste, girl, is already contrary and punishable by administrative article 8.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation ( Failure to comply with requirements in the field of environmental protection when handling production and consumption waste. – Note . "Caucasian Knot" ) Do you understand? We support the repressed on October 30. Today is March 2. We don’t support the repressed on March 2. We have a strictly designated day for this. Like May 9, February 23," he says The video shows a young policeman.
“The woman took the flowers to another monument across the road. It was also guarded by police and National Guardsmen. They allowed the resident to lay flowers, but did not answer whether they would be thrown away,” the publication says.
Neither federal nor regional legislation prohibits laying flowers at any time, the author of the publication posted today on the Telegram channel of the Sota publication pointed out. “At the same time, throwing out garbage, which the security forces considered laying flowers, is indeed punishable at both the regional and federal levels. But, according to the law, municipal solid waste (MSW, MSW, garbage as such) are objects or goods that have lost their consumer properties. Flowers cannot be considered such objects,” the publication says.
Krasnodar activist Yana Antonova also drew attention to the incident. “The Sochi policeman claims that flowers can be laid at the monument to the repressed residents of Kuban only on October 30, and on other days the law prohibits this. Interestingly, in the opinion of this guy, flowers can be laid at the monuments of the buried in cemeteries only on Remembrance Day, and at monuments those who died in the Second World War, when is it possible, on what day?” – she wrote today in her Telegram channel.
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