Former Sverdlovsk deputy Mikhail Borisov, who came to honor the memory of Boris Nemtsov, was sentenced to nine days of arrest.
How to сообщает Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom, judge Vladimir Ushakov found the 68-year-old politician guilty of organizing an uncoordinated public event.
In his own words Mikhail Borisov, February 27, on the anniversary of the murder Boris NemtsovHe came to honor his memory at the monument to the founders of Yekaterinburg on Truda Square. He didn't bring any posters or even flowers.
At the monument, Borisov met with the head of the local Memorial Alexey Mosin.
“It was a personal, private meeting between two elderly people that no one knew about and could not know about,” the politician explained in court.
After Mosin placed his bouquet at the foot of the monument, the police demanded he take the flowers back. Mosin took his bouquet, and Borisov took the bouquet that had been there before his arrival. They were then photographed and taken to the station.
Alexey Mosin was detained immediately and arrested for nine days. Mikhail Borisov, however, had to be released that day because he is a voting member of the precinct election commission and is considered a so-called special subject (he can only be deprived of his liberty with the approval of the regional prosecutor, which the police did not have). Politics detained On March 11, when he arrived to have his report drawn up, he spent two days in a temporary detention facility.
In the 90s, Borisov was a member of the regional council and later headed the regional branch of the now-liquidated PARNAS party.
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