Tatiana Kulbakina held a single-person picket on the central square of Murmansk in October 2012 during a celebration of the anniversary of Murmansk town. During the celebrations of the completely secular day, an orthodox service was held and shown on a large-screen television on the main square. Tatiana found the event inappropriate for Russia as a secular state and showed this by helding a poster saying: “The Russian Federation is a secular state. None religion can be appointed as official or obligatory, article 14.1 of the Russian constitution”.
Two months later the police became interested in the case, which now has been in court. Kulbakina was blamed of organizing a general action, not a single-person picket. The police also believed the main idea of the action was to protest against the Russian Orthodox Church.
The case came to trial in April. Yesterday the last hearings in the case were held and the judge decided the case to be dismissed because of numerous violations by the police in the investigation, the blog portal 7x7 reports.
