In Yekaterinburg, Dmitry Bakhtin, the father of a three-year-old son Misha with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), was detained near the building of the Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative on Dobrolyubov Street. His wife Yana Bakhtina told It's my city about this.
Bakhtin came out in the morning with a poster “President Putin, save the life of a child, provide medicine.” Putin flew to Yekaterinburg today to then go to Uralvagonzavod in Nizhny Tagil.
In 2021, the child, when he was seven months old, was given an injection of the drug Zolgensma, but it didn't work. Then the parents began to push for the use of another expensive drug — Risdiplam. The officials refused the family's request and referred to the fact that the consequences of using two drugs in a row had not been studied.
The police drew up a report against Bakhtin for violating the rules of holding a public rally (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). They wrote in the document that he was wearing a balaclava, which “hid his face.” At the same time, the photo shows that Bakhtin was wearing a hat today, and he wore a balaclava during previous pickets.
Bakhtin’s defender Yulia Lipinskaya clarified to E1.ru that the man was taken to the Leninsky District Court, which ordered the minimum prescribed Article fine — 10 thousand rubles. Dmitry Bakhtin regularly went to pickets, including not only in Yekaterinburg, but also on Red Square and to the building of the Ministry of Health in Moscow.