St.Petersburg

On November 1, 24-year-old Belarusian citizen Yana Pinchuk was detained by Russian criminal investigation officers in St. Petersburg, the human rights centre Viasna reports. In Belarus, a criminal case was launched against the woman over her taking part in post-election protests.

The meeting lasted more than five hours.

Large-scale protest rallies took place in a number of Russian cities on April 21, the day of Vladimir Putin’s delivering his address to the Federal Assembly. Notably, not a single city administration authorised holding a rally or a march; turning down the applications, they referred to the pandemic that are currently in effect.

The local police detained nine persons near the Belarusian embassy in Moscow on Sunday evening, OVD-Info reports.