The head of the Ural Memorial was arrested for nine days for laying flowers in memory of Nemtsov.

Chairman of the Yekaterinburg Memorial Society Alexey Mosin recognized guilty of organizing an unauthorized public event. According to the police, the violation consisted of laying flowers at a monument to the victims of political repression. During the court hearing, a police major Otar Amoev He stated that one can commemorate a deceased person at home or in church, but not on the street with flowers.

The judge agreed with this version. Tatyana Chashchina.

Mosin was detained last night, on the 11th anniversary of the murder Boris Nemtsov. The former chairman of the regional branch of the now-liquidated PARNAS party was also taken to the police. Mikhail Borisov, who also laid flowers at the monument. Borisova soon released, since he is a member of one of the precinct election commissions with the right to vote and is classified as a so-called special subject (he can only be deprived of his freedom with the sanction of the regional prosecutor, which the police did not have).

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