Participants in the evening of letters to political prisoners in Rostov-on-Don faced pressure

Police officers in Rostov-on-Don issued warnings to three activists of the unregistered Rassvet party, verbally calling their evening of letters to political prisoners a violation of the law.

Police officers visited three activists of the Rassvet party (the party is not registered with the Russian Ministry of Justice - Caucasian Knot note) with a warning about the inadmissibility of violating the law during the upcoming event, reported party leader Ekaterina Duntsova (recognized as a foreign agent). "The warnings didn't contain any specifics. Activists were told verbally that the evening of letters was organized by 'some banned organizations based abroad,'" she noted on her Telegram channel.

To support this theory, police cited the fact that information about the event had appeared in the weekly compilation of the channel of the "Ark" project, which is designated a foreign agent in Russia.

"The Rassvet Party is a legal political party, operating strictly in accordance with Russian law and currently undergoing state registration. The party has no ties to any foreign organizations, projects, or structures," she stated on November 15, announcing that the activists intended to hold the event announced for that same evening.