Court orders additional inquiry into Udaltsov/Razvozzhayev case
MOSCOW. Dec 26 (Interfax) - The Moscow City Court ordered on Thursday an additional inquiry into the case of opposition activists Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhayev.
A court spokesman told Interfax the Moscow City Court judge made the decision in order to eliminate the shortcomings in the bill of indictment.
The opposition activists are accused of organizing mass disturbances involving violence, rampaging, arson and property damage, and preparing to organize mass disturbances (Part 1 Article 212, Part 1 Article 30 and Part 1 Article 212 of the Russian Criminal Code). Razvozzhayev is also charged with the illegal crossing of the state border (Part 1 Article 322 of the Russian Criminal Code).
The detectives said Razvozzhayev and Udaltsov together with Konstantin Lebedev and Georgian citizen Givi Targamadze organized mass disturbances on Moscow's Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, involving violence against police officers and property damage, with the purpose of eroding foundations of public security and stability and achieving sociopolitical destabilization in Russia.
They continued their criminal activity during 2012 and planned new actions to start mass disturbances on Russian territory, the detectives said.
"Seeking to achieve that purpose, the accomplices organized training camps and recruited prospective participants in mass disturbances in various regions of Russia, including Ivanovo, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod, Volgograd and Kazan, and in Lithuania and made other arrangements, which were finally stopped by the police," says a report of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office that approved the bill of indictment.
Left Front activist Konstantin Lebedev was earlier sentenced to 2.5 years in a penitentiary on similar counts as Udaltsov and Razvozzhayev. He pleaded guilty.
The opposition demonstration held with the permission of the city authorities on Moscow's Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, developed into clashes with the police. More than 400 people were detained.