Policemen have drawn up a report on the Perm coordinator of the movement of observers «Golos» Vitaly Kovin. He spoke about this in a blog on the Golos website.
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Vitaly Kovin posted the full text of the letter and accompanied it with his introduction: “Politics is what people invented instead of war. The more public politics, the less wars, and vice versa.”
The letter itself, in addition to Kovin, an employee of the Department for the Study of Political Institutions of the Perm Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was signed by more than 200 researchers from Russian and foreign universities.
< p>According to the materials laid out by the political scientist, employees of the Perm department of the FSB drew attention to the post, who handed it over to the police. The examination of the Ministry of Internal Affairs found in the post «a negative assessment of the actions of the Russian military.»
The case was registered today in the Motovilikha District Court of Perm. No meeting date set yet.
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In September 2021, Vitaly Kovin and other Golos coordinators were included in the media register as “foreign agents”. The Ministry of Justice explained this by the fact that the political scientist received a total of 769 rubles from three foreigners. Although Kovin himself did not find such transfers to his account, on April 19 the court recognized his inclusion in the register as legal.