A group of wealthy Russians who drove pricey supercars through Moscow immediately ran afoul of the law, just like many other people who have organized parties in public under President Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
According to state-run Tass, seven individuals, including Alexander Donskoy, a former mayor of Archangelsk, were sentenced to up to 15 days in jail for taking part in a ‘mass gathering of citizens in a public location.’ According to a representative at Moscow’s Tagansky court, another 19 persons will soon have similar hearings, the news service reports, citing the source.
They were among the drivers who were roughly carried away by police the day before when up to 170 foreign automobile owners gathered for a “rich and successful” rally on the streets of the Russian capital, featuring drivers of Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches, Hummers, Bentleys, and Rolls-Royce. According to Tass, police detained 107 people in all and seized many of the vehicles. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Moscow has developed a reputation for showy displays of riches. However, to quell any potential signs of discontent, the Kremlin has enacted restrictive regulations in tandem with Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
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Officials and police are tightening down on even unrelated activities to uphold strict public control as Russia’s army becomes more entrenched in Ukraine and reports of significant military losses mount. According to Mikhail Vinogradov, director of the St. Petersburg Politics Foundation, What was legal yesterday may be banned today, most people have merely not noticed it yet. No public events are authorized other than those we plan ourselves, which is the governing concept for the authorities.
It was not possible to instantly identify the inmates’ attorneys. According to Tass, one of those jailed, Alexey Khitrov, denied planning a rally and told the court that the group had no political objectives and had assembled for a business meeting at a restaurant before deciding to leave the city. The incident was covered by state media as a popular morality tale. Vladimir Dzhabarov, the first deputy chairman of the international affairs committee in Russia’s upper house of parliament, believes that the rally’s organizers ought to be sent as retribution to aid troops risking their lives fighting in eastern Ukraine. He commented on Telegram that even if they don’t know how to fight, they may assist as orderlies in military hospitals.
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