In St. Petersburg, the security forces came with searches to the Viasna activists Valentin Khoroshenin and Yevgeny Zateev, as well as to the head of the Frunzensky district branch of Yabloko and a member of the territorial electoral commissions Vasily Neustroev. This is reported by Yabloko and the First Department. In what criminal case are investigative actions, is not yet known. The security forces also did not allow lawyers to search. According to the “First Department”, the activists of “Viasna” are going to deliver for interrogation to Moscow. Neustroev, according to OVD-Info, is being taken in handcuffs to the building of the Investigative Committee in St. Petersburg. In December, the St. Petersburg City Court recognized the Vesna movement as an extremist organization. On May 17, the Second Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction approved this decision, it entered into force. Khoroshenin and Zateev are also involved in a criminal case on the creation of an NPO that infringes on the personality and rights of citizens (Part 2 of Article 239 of the Criminal Code). As a preventive measure, they chose the prohibition of certain actions.