These are the times we live in: while I was writing a post about Polikhovich, a "prisoner in the Bolotnaya case" (the criminal case tied to the Bolotnaya Square protest in Moscow), as part of the "One Day, One Name" campaign, news came that Alexei Gaskarov had been detained.
http://www.sledcom.ru/news/295303.html Judging by the way his election to the Coordination Council was mentioned as something highly significant and clearly aggravating, and by the "accidental" typo — "appozition" instead of "opposition" — the valiant General Markin is once again on PR duty for Mr. Bastrykin. The bastards are reveling in it. Drunk on impunity. For now, Alexei has only been detained. On the basis of an identification by some so-called "secret witness." Let's hope that on Monday he will be released and not remanded in custody. A reminder that on May 6, Gaskarov himself was beaten and even filed a police report over the assault.