In the Moscow region, action artist Pavel Krisevich has been detained.

Security forces have detained action artist Pavel Krisevich—he was taken to Police Station No. 2 in Mytishchi, a city near Moscow. Krisevich’s wife informed OVD-Info about his detention.

According to her, her husband was detained at 14:30 and taken to sign a warning related to the elections. The day before, the police had visited the Krisevich home and warned them that they would ask the artist to sign a document.

The action artist remained at the police station until six in the evening. After he told his wife that he was going to sign the warning, he lost contact with her.

Lawyer Oskar Cherdzhiev reported that he was on his way to see Krisevich at the police station.

21:30 A protocol for disobeying police orders (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences) is being drawn up against Pavel Krisevich. He is still being held at the Mytishchi police station, according to his support group’s channel.

21:43 Pavel Krisevich will be kept overnight at the police station. Lawyer Oskar Cherdzhiev reported this in his stories.

Krisevich is expected to appear in court tomorrow, but the time of the hearing is unknown. Cherdzhiev was also not allowed to familiarise himself with the protocol or speak to his client.

• In January, Krisevich was released after serving a five-year sentence for a performance he staged in June 2021: at that time, the artist shot himself in the head with a blank cartridge on Red Square to draw attention to the issues faced by political prisoners in Russia.
• On 24 April, Krisevich’s home was searched in connection with the case against gallery owner Marat Guelman. “Supposedly, I might have seen one of his videos on Facebook, because of which a case was opened against him,” Krisevich said. Guelman is being prosecuted under an article on justifying terrorism (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).
• In May this year, the artist was also arrested for 10 days under the article on disobeying police orders (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences) for “emotional behaviour and swearing.” On that day, the security forces stopped Krisevich based on a description matching a person who attacked a taxi driver on 12 February in Skopin, a small city in the Ryazan region, south-east of Moscow.