Bolotnaya Square case
By the number of accused, 37 persons, it is currently the largest criminal case against participants of public demonstrations in modern Russia.
The Russian Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin repeatedly stated that "there were no riots in Bolotnaya Square".
Fearing persecution, several other people, who had not yet been officially accused, left Russia and have been granted asylum in Estonia, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Portugal, Spain and Sweden,[10][11][12][13] while Aleksandr Dolmatov committed suicide in the Netherlands detention centre after his political asylum application was turned down.
Houses of Alexey Navalny, Sergey Udaltsov, Kseniya Sobchak, Boris Nemtsov, Ilya Yashin and Pyotr Verzilov were searched.
The supporters of the arrested created the May 6 Committee, an independent organization set up to conduct its own investigation and defend those charged in connection with the rally.
[15][16] Dozens of prominent musicians and artists publicly supported the prisoners of the Bolotnaya Square case, among them Anti-Flag, Ken Loach, Yuri Shevchuk, Noize MC, Boris Akunin, Dmitry Spirin.
[17] In 2014, the remaining defendants in the Bolotnaya Square case who did not fall under the amnesty received prison sentences varying from 2.5 to 4.5 years.
[19] In July 2018, the Russian Ministry of Interior filed lawsuit against several defendants in the Bolotnaya case for the loss by the police of rubber sticks and radio stations.
He faced charges of participating in mass riots (article 212 of the Russian Criminal Code) which carries a sentence of up to eight years in prison.
In court on November 26, his lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky presented letters, offering to put up bail for Akimenkov, from the Parliament member Ilya Ponomarev, the human rights activist Lev Ponomarev, the writer Ludmila Ulitskaya and the human rights activist Ludmila Alekseeva.
On June 10 he was arrested for allegedly participating in the mass riots (article 212 of the Russian Criminal Code), facing up to eight years in prison.
He was accused of participating in mass riots (paragraph 2, article 212 of the Russian Criminal Code), facing up to eight years in prison.
The State Duma member Tetekhin and around ten municipal deputies in Moscow wrote guarantees for Yaroslav Belousov.
The Investigative Committee of Russia claimed Ilya Guschin had grabbed a police officer by his uniform, trying to prevent the arrest of another protester.
He was accused of participating in mass riots (paragraph 2, article 212 of the Russian Criminal Code) and faced up to eight years in prison.
An independent investigation undertaken by a journalist from the "Grani.ru" human rights organization implies that Nikolay was not beating the policeman but was rather dodging the blows.
His lawyers Tamara Romanova and Sergey Minnenkov have repeatedly drawn the attention of the court to Nikolay Kavkazsky's health conditions while presenting his medical records.
Leonid Kovyazin was accused of participating in mass riots (paragraph 2, article 212 of the Russian Criminal Code) and faced up to eight years in prison.
He was charged with the organization and preparation of riots, including the May 6 demonstration at Bolotnaya Square, and placed in preventive detention.
The lawyer of Denis Lutskevich, Dmitry Dinze, presented the court with numerous positive references from his work, university and from his neighbors.
Alexander Margolin is a Moscow State University of Printing Arts graduate, who worked as the deputy director of the Mediacentre-ART Publishers.
Alexander had been taking part in protest events since December 2011 when he was arrested after the rally at Chistiye Prudi (Dec 5) and sentenced to spend 10 days in detention.
Later the investigators claimed to hold video recordings showing Margolin trying to knock down a police task force officer.
Born in 1991, student of political science at the State Academic University for the Humanities in Moscow, an activist with the "Solidarnost" movement.
The leaders of "Solidarnost" Garry Kasparov and Boris Nemtsov provided her with their personal letters of recommendation for her enrollment in the university.
With regard to the situation, Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip said that Rybachenko "should definitely submit an application to the corresponding institutions in Estonia.
"[32] In response, Rybachenko published an open letter to PM Ansip and stated that she appreciated the concern but did not need asylum as long as she had a student visa to stay in the EU.
[35][36] On January 9, 2014, before the investigation was completed, the case against Rybachenko was closed due to the amnesty issued by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The lawyer Farid Murtazin claims that Savelov suffers from some heart problems and that he needs a medical consultation which is impossible in prison conditions.
[38] Several Russian activists have left their country for fear of prosecution and have sought refugee status in Ukraine.
