On October 22, officers from the «E» center detained 15-year-old Sevastian Sultanov, reported Dmitry Rumyantsev, chairman of the local branch of the «Civic Initiative» party.
The next day, a search was conducted at the teenager's place, during which «physical evidence» was seized, which the authorities did not specify, and Sultanov's phone was taken, with threats made to the teenager that his mother would be fired from her job.
According to the investigation, Sultanov made graffiti on the Voznesensky tract. The Telegram channel «Navalny's Team»** published a photo of graffiti with the inscriptions «Navalny!» and «Putin — war and poverty!» on the crossings on the same tract in Kazan on October 21. The project wrote that it was done by volunteers from underground headquarters.
The state-appointed lawyer informed the relatives only that «the article is serious», wrote Rumyantsev. However, he did not specify under which specific article the search was conducted and what status the teenager holds.
On October 22, the authorities questioned former candidate for the State Council of Tatarstan and member of the «Civic Initiative» Airat Gumerbaev on a polygraph, then the «E» Center officers handed Airat Gumerbaev a warning about the inadmissibility of holding rallies and released him. In the republic, similar warnings were issued to more than ten activists before the BRICS summit.
* Included in the list of «terrorists and extremists».
** Recognized in Russia as an «extremist» organization.