In Yekaterinburg City Hall, under the bronze portrait of Yevgeny Roizman, the inscription «foreign agent» was placed. This is reported by Meduza.
“On November 25, 2022, he was recognized as a person acting as a foreign agent,” reads a golden plate under a bas-relief depicting the former mayor of the city. The portrait was installed on January 10.
Roizman headed Yekaterinburg from 2013 to 2018. Now the politician is being tried in a criminal case on “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). The reason for the persecution was the live broadcast of July 1, 2022.
According to the siloviki, the opposition leader disseminated information that contained signs of «convincing the addressee of the negative nature of the goals of using the armed forces of the Russian Federation.» Roizman is charged with the phrases «War in Ukraine» and «Invasion of Ukraine.»
In August last year, Roizman was detained, his house, office, icon museum and charitable foundation were searched. After that, the court appointed him a ban on certain actions as a measure of restraint.
In March 2023, a court in Yekaterinburg arrested Roizman for 14 days in an administrative case on the demonstration of extremist symbols (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The protocol was drawn up because of the video “Why Putin puts Navalny in jail”, published in the Yevgeny Roizman group on VKontakte. The former mayor of Yekaterinburg himself claimed that he was not associated with the public named after him.