Moscow April 22, 2013

Report Summary 5

1. Committee Status, Objectives and Principles 22

2. Сomposition of the Committee 25

3. The Public Situation Prior to the 6th of May Events 26

The events of May 6, 2012 were preceded by a huge outbreak of civil activity. Yet it cannot be called unexpected. The ground for it was prepared by three interconnected tendencies. 26

Conclusions of the Chapter 29

4. Organization and Conduct of Public Events 31

4.1 Preliminary legal comments, describing the Committee’s approach to the issues related to the freedom of peaceful gathering 31

4.1.1 The international and Russian legal acts, guaranteeing the realization of the right to free and unarmed gathering 31

4.1.2 Recommendations of the Committee regarding amendment of the legal acts related to the freedom of gathering 34

4.1.3 Judicial practice 42

4.1.4 Legal norms regulating the obligations of the executive bodies of the entities of the Russian Federation immediately involved in the organization of public events. 43

4.1.5 Legal norms, regulating the obligations of law-enforcement officials 44

4.2 Established facts 49

4.2.1 Application of the organizers, the course of the negotiations, coordination with city authorities; time and location of the public assembly, site perimeter of the public assembly; the course of the talks on law enforcement issues, the arrangements reached and their implementation. 49

4.2.2 Resources Involved. Distribution of Security Forces 52

4.2.3 Meeting of the demonstration participants in the area of the Kaluzhskaya Square 55

4.2.4 The demonstration from the Kaluzhskaya Square to Yakimanka Street 57

4.2.5 Contact of the column with the interior troops, OMON and police forces at the end of Maly Kamenny Bridge 60

Summary 66

4.2.6 Confrontations and clashes. Maly Kamenny Bridge, Bolotnaya Embankment, Kadashevskaya Embankment 67

Maly Kamenny Bridge 80

Bolotnaya Embankment 80

Kadashevskaya Embankment 82

Summary 83

4.2.7 Refusal in Medical Aid 84

4.2.8 Detentions 84

Summary of the Section 93

5. Mass riots investigation 94

5.1 Legal Comments Underlying the Legal Approaches of the Commission: 94

5.2 Facts concerning the investigation of the case of May 6 96

5.2.1. The general part of the Indictment, which does not contain any description of the specific actions by the accused Kovyazin L.N., Krivov S.V., Luzyanin M.S. (the convict), Dukhanina A.I., Barabanov A.N., Zimin S.Y., Lutskevich D.A., Belousov J.G., Akimenkov V.G., Savelov A.V., Kavkazskij N.Y., Polihovich A.A., Kosenko M.A. involved in case # 201-459415/12 96

5.2.2. The accused Kovyazin L.N., Krivov S.V., Luzyanin M.S. (the convict), Dukhanina A.I., Barabanov A.N., Zimin S.Y., Lutskevich D.A., Belousov J.G., Akimenkov V.G., Savelov A.V., Kavkazskiy N.Y., Polihovich A.A., Kosenko M.A.: the preventive measure and the date of arrest, location, charged under articles, actions imputed. Undergo criminal case # 201-459415/12 101

5.2.3. Accused Arkhipenkov O.Y., Baronova M.N., Bahov F.N., Guscin I.V., Kamensky A.A., Kohtareva E.A., Lebedev K.V., Margolin A.E., Razvozzhaev L.M., Rybachenko A.A., Sobolev R., Udaltsov S.S.: charges, preventive measure and the date of arrest, location 109

Conclusions of the section 114

6. Events on May 6, 2012 and their consequences in the coverage by the Russian federal TV channels 117

6.1. Absence of opinion balance 117

6.2. General ideological directive: riots were planned in advance by overseas masterminds 118

6.3. Common task for personal discredit of the organizers of the public rally on the Bolotnaya Square on May 6 and its ordinary participants 122

6.4. Manipulations with pictures to give the piece more accusatory character 123

Conclusions of the section 125

7. Findings of the Commission 128

7.1 Answers to the questions posed to the Commission 128

7.2 Commission's opinion on other matters relating to the events of May 6 130

7.3 Violations of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the international obligations of the Russian Federation and the laws of the Russian Federation 131

7.3.1 Violations of the Constitution of the Russian Federation 131

7.3.2 Violations of the European Convention on Human Rights 132

7.3.3. Violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 132

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (December 16, 1966) 133

7.3.4 Violations of Law No. 54- ФЗ “On Meetings, Rallies, Demonstrations, Marches and Pickets” dated June 19, 2004 133

7.3.5 Violations of Law No. 3- ФЗ “On the police” dated February 7, 2011 134

7.4. The Events of the 6th of May: the Version of the Commission 139

7.5. Further work of the Commission 142

8. Annexes 144

8.1 Annexes to Section 1 144

8.2 Annexes to Section 4.2.1 147


8.3 Annexes to Section 4. Eyewitness accounts, pictures, links to walk-through video 159

8.3.1 Eyewitness accounts 159

8.3.2 Pictures 231

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8.3.3 Links to walk-through video 237

8.4 Annexes to Section 6 239

8.5 Annexes to Section 7 246


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