Police conduct ‘room inspection’ in flat of Moscow activists Kamardin, Popova, and Menukov

Popova managed to let her friends know that the law enforcement agents were “breaking the door”. The policemen did not let the lawyer into the flat due to them conducting a surveillance activity “room inspection” inside, Solovyev said.

Solovyev told Novaya Gazeta. Europe that Popova and Kamardin had been brought out of the flat handcuffed, Menukov — with his hands free. The inspection of the flat was finished around 5PM Moscow time, all three activists were taken to the Tversky district Investigative Committee.

According to the lawyer, the surveillance activity was being conducted in relation to a criminal case, however, he currently has no information on what criminal case that is and how it is connected to the activists that live in the flat.

Yesterday, 25 September, an event known as Mayakovsky poetry readings took place in Moscow, near the monument to the famous Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. Activists previously stated that September’s readings would be known as “anti-mobilisation” poetry readings. Kamardin participated in yesterday’s “readings”. According to independent Russian human rights project OVD-Info, five other participants of the poetry event were detained under Article on violating the protest law.