Anna Shatunovskaya-Burno, a candidate in the upcoming municipal elections in Moscow's Yakimanka district, has been accused of “demonstrating extremist symbols,” reported OVD-Info citing lawyer Yevgenia Grigorieva.
Shatunovskaya-Burno is currently in police custody following a complaint from an employee of the “Detsky Mir” department store in central Moscow. The employee complained about a Facebook post by archpriest Alexey Uminsky calling for mercy on politician Alexey Navalny. The post included Navalny’s logo — the letter “N.”
Shatunovskaya-Burno published the post before Navalny's organisations were deemed extremist, and later deleted it. However, Kharitonova had a notarised screenshot.
Kharitonova was detained the day before she was meant to be summoned to the district election commission.
The same administrative violation saw incumbent Yabloko deputy in the Khamovniki district Tatyana Kasimova detained, in addition to electoral candidates Nikolai Kasyan and Maria Volokh.
The penalty imposed for the offence prohibits candidates from running in any election for one year.
Aside from the arrests of Shatunovskaya-Burno, Kasimova, Kasyan and Volokh, Sergei Burtsev, a municipal election candidate in Moscow’s Izmaylovo North district, reported that he had been assaulted yesterday. Burtsev has been hospitalised at the Sklifosovsky Research Institute.
