Alexey Gaskarov: Analysis of the "Bolotnaya Square Case"

Basmanny District Court's sentence, on the 29th April, against Alexey Gaskarov: Gaskarov to be held in pretrial detention for two months.

Police officers and provocateurs are attempting to disrupt a one-person picket in support of Nikolay Kavkazsky, and Dmitry Vakulina's speech in support of other “May 6 prisoners” detained at Bolotnaya Square.

On Friday, February 21, the Zamoskvoretsky Court in Moscow began announcing the verdict in the Bolotnaya case. The court found eight defendants guilty of participating in “mass riots” and attacking police officers. However, the verdict was not read to the end — an additional hearing was scheduled. Meanwhile, around 400 citizens gathered outside the courthouse (including political activists, opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and members of the band Pussy Riot). The police detained half of them: taking them to local precincts and issuing reports for violating regulations on public assemblies and pickets. All detainees were released shortly afterward. Lenta.doc observed the action near the courthouse.

A police colonel at a political demostration on the 6th May asks participants whether he acted correctly during the protests on Bolotnaya Square.

One-person pickets in Moscow in support of those accused in the May 6 case.

March in support of political prisoners. Participants included Dmitry Bykov, Boris Nemtsov, Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, and Ilya Yashin.