Activists in Yerevan demanded the release of Russian political prisoners.

At a picket outside the Russian Embassy in Yerevan, protesters demanded the release of political prisoners.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," weekly protests demanding the release of political prisoners are held outside the Russian Embassy in Yerevan.

A mass picket in support of Russian political prisoners was held outside the Russian Embassy in Yerevan. Activists held signs demanding the release of Russians considered political prisoners. Particular attention was paid to the defendants in the "Furgal case," sentenced to terms ranging from 13 to 21 years in a maximum-security penal colony.

The posters also featured the youngest political prisoner in Russia, convicted at age 15. Another poster was dedicated to Gennady Artemenko, born in 1963. According to the picketers, he received an 18-year sentence after attempting to smuggle his elderly mother out of the Dnipropetrovsk region. The posters also featured other convicted individuals, whom the protesters dismissed as innocent. All of them, according to the picketers, were victims of fabricated cases. A mass picket took place in front of the Russian Embassy in Yerevan, RusNews reports.

According to the video attached to the publication, four people participated in the picket, holding 11 portraits and the slogan "Freedom for political prisoners." They were standing on the sidewalk across the street from the Russian Embassy.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," St. Petersburg activist Alexander Sherchenkov has repeatedly held pickets in front of the Russian Embassy in Yerevan demanding the release of prisoners in Russia, whose persecution he considers unjust. On March 16, he held a solo picket demanding the release of Ruslan Sidiki, who had complained of torture after his arrest. Alexander Sherchenkov is an activist and anarchist who flew to Yerevan from St. Petersburg in June 2022 after facing the risk of criminal prosecution for discrediting the army. This risk was associated with the fact that Sherchenkov repeatedly attended protests with a poster containing a pacifist slogan, the Russian-language publication Lava Media reported on December 24, 2024.