Chief of Nadezhdin's Kaluga headquarters fined for urging votes against Putin
Konstantin Larionov was found guilty of 'illegal production and placement of campaign materials' and 'interfering with the activities of the election commission or the voters.'
The court detected violations in the video where Larionov called for participation in the 'Noon against Putin' campaign. The leader of Nadezhdin’s Kaluga headquarters was detained on the second day of the elections.
One day before the elections, three unidentified individuals beat Larionov when he was coming home from work. Larionov helped collect signatures in support of the unregistered anti-war candidate Boris Nadezhdin and highlighted cases of corruption, officials’ state procurements, and human rights violations.
During the presidential elections, members of Nadezhdin’s headquarters in various regions faced pressure from the authorities. For instance, a campaign volunteer from Primorye was arrested for five days. He was supposed to conduct a poll on the elections; however, the police suspected that he intended to pour brilliant green into a ballot box.
The leader of the Kazan headquarters, Dmitry Rumyantsev, was fined 70,000 rubles and arrested for three days. He was found guilty of resisting the police and spreading messages indicative of 'clear disrespect for society, the state, and the official state symbols of the Russian Federation.'