The head of Boris Nadezhdin’s regional campaign and his associates were detained in Vladivostok, as per the report made by the headquarters on March 13. They will supposedly be charged with 'participation in the LGBT movement.'
The headquarters’ chief Igor Krasnov and volunteer Daniil Laptev were detained on March 13. Unidentified individuals in plain clothes drove them away from the Far East Federal University campus to an unknown destination. Krasnov and Laptev’s associate, Anastasia Konkova, might have been apprehended as well. The activists have been impossible to reach for more than six hours, and their lawyer has not been informed of their whereabouts.
According to the Telegram channel of the political strategist Alexander Ognevsky, three detained FEFU students are soon to face administrative charges of 'LGBT propaganda.' The channel did not name the students, but shared information on their age and gender: the boys are 23 and 21 years old, and the girl is 21 years old.
An acquaintance of the detained activists told '7x7' that the age of two students, mentioned in the Telegram post, does not correspond to that of the headquarters’ members. According to the source, Anastasia Konkova, who was responsible for coordinating volunteers, has no involvement with the LGBT community, and the other two were not engaged in public activities.
Two days ago, Boris Nadezhdin’s headquarters in Primorye announced their intention to conduct exit polls at the elections in response to the non-admission of independent observers.
