Dmitry Borisov at court. Source: Irina Yatsenko.
A version of this text originally appeared on OVD-Info, an NGO that monitors politically-motivated detentions and freedom of assembly in Russia. It was translated by the Russian Reader.
On 22 February, Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court sentenced Dmitry Borisov to one year in prison. Borisov is a defendant in the so-called “26 March Case”, involving various “forceful actions,” allegedly taken by protesters against policemen and Russian National Guardsmen on Pushkin Square during March 2017, rally inspired by Don’t Call Him Dimon, a video exposé by anti-corruption activist and would-be presidential candidate Alexey Navalny. The video accused Russian prime minister and former president Dmitry Medvedev of wide-ranging corruption. The prosecution asked the judge to sentence Borisov to three years in prison.
