Economist Sergey Guriev, Founder of VimpelCom, Dmitry Zimin, Director Vitaly Manx and more than 180 scientists, actors, writers, journalists, directors, entrepreneurs and public figures signed an appeal to the authorities in connection with severe detentions and arrests of participants and organizers of rallies in support of Alexey Navalny.
"In recent weeks, peaceful collections of citizens have passed throughout Russia - they went to the streets to express their protest against political persecution: attempts, fabrication of criminal cases and arrests of political opponents. Similar phenomena characteristic of dictators are unacceptable in modern society are incompatible with the tasks of the development of our country and return it to the totalitarian past, "the authors wrote.
The authors of the letter called on the authorities and public organizations to "immediately lead the legislation on rallies and demonstrations in line with the Constitution of Russia and guarantee citizens the right of peaceful assembly." They also demanded to let all detainees on rallies, "stop the practice of inhuman beating by the police of civilians and a court arbitrariness against the detainees."
They noted that all applications for the opposition rallies have recently received the coordination of the authorities, which is a violation of the 31st article of the Constitution of Russia. "If votes and elections are held in the country, it cannot be simultaneously prohibited by meetings and rallies. In this situation, the behavior of people who came to peaceful shares fully consistent with legal order. "
Among the signatories, the actors of Veniamin Stukhov, Chulpan Khamatova, Yana Trojanova, Evgeny Tsyganov, Yulia Snikir, Alexander Filippenko, directed by Andrei Zhoragintsev, Vitaly Manx, Zhora Ryzhovnikov, Marina Sparzhekina, Writers Boris Akunin, Julius Kim, Denis Dragunsky, Sergey Gadlevsky, Maxim Osipov , academicians Vladimir Zakharov, Evgeny Aleksandrov, Efim Khazanov, etc.
On February 2, the court in Moscow replaced Alexey Navalny suspended period in the case of "Yves Roshe" for real. In support of the opposition, protest shares were held throughout Russia on January 23 and 31, as well as February 2.
Earlier, the Moscow City Court published the statistics of arrests and fines for participants in protest actions in Moscow. According to this data, 4,908 cases were received in court against participants in inconsistent shares; 972 people were arrested; 1232 people are fined. On February 4, the lawyers of the Agora Human Rights Group Pavel Chikov said that following the results of the protests from January 23 to February 2 throughout Russia, 50 criminal cases were instituted.