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The Report of the 12Th December of the Round Table Committee On The Report of the December 12 Roundtable Committee on the Public Investigation of the Events of May 6, 2012 on Bolotnaya Square Moscow April 22, 2013 Report Summary .......................................................................................................... 5 1. Committee Status, Objectives and Principles ..................................................... 22 2. Сomposition of the Committee ............................................................................. 25 th 3. The Public Situation Prior to the 6 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 .......................................................................................................................... 43 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. ................................ 44 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............................................................................ 53 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 .................... 58 4.2.5 Contact of the column with the interior troops, OMON and police forces at the end of Maly Kamenny Bridge .......................................................................................................................... 61 Summary ................................................................................................................................................................... 67 4.2.6 Confrontations and clashes. Maly Kamenny Bridge, Bolotnaya Embankment, Kadashevskaya Embankment ......................................................................................................................... 68 Maly Kamenny Bridge ........................................................................................................................ 81 Bolotnaya Embankment ..................................................................................................................... 81 Kadashevskaya Embankment ........................................................................................................ 83 2 Summary ................................................................................................................................................................... 84 4.2.7 Refusal in Medical Aid .............................................................................................................. 85 4.2.8 Detentions ...................................................................................................................................... 85 Summary of the Section ...................................................................................................................................... 94 5. Mass riots investigation ......................................................................................... 96 5.1 Legal Comments Underlying the Legal Approaches of the Commission: ................................... 96 5.2 Facts concerning the investigation of the case of May 6 ......................................................................... 97 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 .............................................................................................................................................................. 97 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 ........................................................................................................................................ 102 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 ............... 111 Conclusions of the section ........................................................................................ 115 6. Events on May 6, 2012 and their consequences in the coverage by the Russian federal TV channels ................................................................................... 118 6.1. Absence of opinion balance ......................................................................................................................... 118 6.2. General ideological directive: riots were planned in advance by overseas masterminds ............ 119 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 ............................................................................................. 123 6.4. Manipulations with pictures to give the piece more accusatory character ..................................... 124 Conclusions of the section ........................................................................................ 126 7. Findings of the Commission ................................................................................ 129 7.1 Answers to the questions posed to the Commission ............................................................................... 129 7.2 Commission's opinion on other matters relating to the events of May 6 .......................................... 131 7.3 Violations of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the international obligations of the Russian Federation and the laws of the Russian Federation ...................................................................... 132 7.3.1 Violations of the Constitution of the Russian Federation ............................................... 132 7.3.2 Violations of the European Convention on Human Rights ............................................ 133 7.3.3. Violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights..................................................................................................... 133 3 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (December 16, 1966) ................... 134 7.3.4 Violations of Law No. 54- ФЗ “On Meetings, Rallies, Demonstrations, Marches and Pickets” dated June 19, 2004 ................................................................................................................ 134 7.3.5 Violations of Law No. 3- ФЗ “On the police” dated February 7, 2011 ........................ 135 7.4. The Events of the 6th of May: the Version of the Commission ........................................................... 140 7.5. Further work of the Commission .............................................................................................................. 143 8. Annexes.................................................................................................................. 145 8.1 Annexes to Section 1 ..................................................................................................................................
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