Denis Sushchenko, senior investigator of the first department for the investigation of particularly important cases of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Primorsky Territory, initiates a criminal case under parts 1 and 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
Judge of the Frunzensky District Court of the city of Vladivostok A. V. Rybakov chooses a ban on certain actions for Sergey Isupov, Sergey Chikichev, Vyacheslav Yudin and Andrey Yavny as a restriction measure.
The criminal case against Vyacheslav Yudin, Aleksandr Podkaura, Sergey Chikichev, Sergey Isupov, and Andrey Yavny goes to the Pervorechenskiy District Court of Vladivostok for review by Judge Galina Vasilkevich.
About twenty people come to the first hearing in support of the defendants. Three of them are allowed into the courtroom, but the hearing is postponed due to the absence of the prosecutor.
The defense files a motion to disqualify Judge Galina Vasilkevich, citing possible personal interest in the outcome of the proceedings. Previously, she considered the case of Redozubov and others, in which two defendants were sentenced to 6.5 and 7 years' imprisonment. The court denies the motion.
The prosecutor begins to read out the bill of indictment.