Press Release, 13.01.2023

Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

The Vasileostrovskiy District Court of St.Petersburg returned back to the police the protocol drawn against Boris Vishnevsky, an MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Yabloko Deputy Chairman. The protocol was drawn under the article on “discrediting the army” (Article 20.3.3  Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The protocol was returned to the police in accordance with Article 29.4 Paragraph 4 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, as a document drawn up with violations. According to Boris Vishnevsky, this may be due to the fact that the police did not even notify the deputy about the drafting of the protocol and did not give him the opportunity to submit objections. Vishnevsky claims that all his actions and statements have been absolutely legal.

On 9 January, it was reported an administrative protocol on “discrediting the army” was also drawn up against Emilia Slabunova, an MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia and a member of the Political Committee of the Yabloko party, however, on 12 January, the Petrozavodsk City Court also returned this protocol back to the police so that they could correct the violations.

Read more about the persecution of Yabloko members after the start of the “special operation”.

BORIS VISHNEVSKY

is Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko Party, member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee and Bureau, and an MP of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg

EMILIA SLABUNOVA

is member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, Chair of Yabloko in 2015-2019.

Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia.

Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Honoured Teacher of Russia