The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow commented on the accusations by representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation of the illegality of police visits to the reception room of the first deputy chairman of the Central Committee of the party, Ivan Melnikov, and the office of the legal service of the Moscow city committee. The actions of the employees were aimed at arresting persons suspected of calling, organizing and participating in unauthorized actions, the department said.
“The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Moscow regards the public statements of the representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation as an attempt to give a political color to the legal actions of police officers who carry out measures to ensure public order. These allegations are absolutely untrue, ”reads a press release on the agency’s website.
The police explained that the employees of the department came to the reception room of Mr. Melnikov in order to draw up a protocol against the lawyer Mukhamed Bidzhev under Part 2 of Art. 20.2 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation “Violation of the established procedure for organizing or holding a meeting, meeting, demonstration, procession or picketing.” The police did not block the building and did not enter it, according to the press service of the city Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
According to the police, in the office of the legal service of the Moscow city committee of the Communist Party at 24 Simferopolsky Boulevard, there was “citizen Ivanov”. He allegedly tried to “avoid administrative responsibility for the earlier calls for participation in unauthorized mass events in the center of the capital.”
Mukhamed Bidzhev is a legal advisor to the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, he is the party’s authorized person to submit documents to court. The day before, lawyers planned to file lawsuits to cancel the results of online voting in elections to the State Duma in Moscow’s single-mandate districts.
The suits were filed today. Mr. Bidzhev was arrested for ten days.
On the attempts of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation to appeal the results of electronic voting – in the material of “Kommersant” “On the distant approaches to the court.”
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