News

Investigating operations carried out in Kazan and Ulyanovsk in criminal case over mass riots on Bolotnaya Square

Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee continue investigating a criminal case over organization, participation in and calls to mass riots and use of violence against representatives of the authority on 6 May 2013 on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow and over plotting mass riots in the Russian Federation.

Today an investigative group has questioned as witnesses in the cities of Kazan and Ulyanovsk supporters of the Left Front movement, who in spring-summer 2012 organized meetings of Sergey Udaltsov with the citizens and who took active part in such meetings organized on the orders of G. Targamadze in other regions. Their testimonies confirm that the main target of those meetings was to incline as many people as possible to participate in opposition actions in autumn 2012 during which the oppositionists planned to organize mass riots. Some of the questioned said that they had changed dramatically their attitude to the activity of S. Udaltsov, when had realized the methods he used to reach goals and his dependency on G. Targamadze and other so called politicians, who live outside the Russian Federation.

In addition, investigators during the searches in Ulyanovsk seized agitation literature, posters and leaflets, including those calling to take part in the March of Millions on 6 May 2012, flags and other objects for participation in the actions of the Left Front. They also seized electronic correspondence with Udaltsov, which shows his active part in attracting wider public in the March of Millions on 6 May 2012.