The Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow appointed a resident of the capital, Yuri Samoilov, 14 days of arrest under a protocol on the distribution of extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). His brother Nikolai Lunchenkov told about this to Mediazona.
It is not known what actions of Samoilov the security forces saw as a violation, since the family does not know the name of the lawyer, and there is no copy of the court decision. In addition, according to Lunchenkov, the detention and arrest of his brother took place on the same day, March 17. Only in the evening he was allowed to make a short phone call to his mother from the Sakharovo Special Detention Center.
During the conversation, the man said that a subway passenger looked at his phone and called the police. The arrived security forces demanded that Samoilov show the contents of the smartphone. There they «found a bunch of pictures and photographs that» had a discrediting character for the Russian army, «Lunchenkov wrote on his social networks.