Activists in Yerevan demanded the release of Russian political prisoners.

A picket for the freedom 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 those implicated in the "Furgal case," who were sentenced to terms ranging from 13 to 21 years in a maximum-security penal colony, the RusNews project reported.

The posters also featured a 15-year-old resident of the Oryol region, as well as Gennady Artemenko, born in 1963. According to picket participants, Artemenko received an 18-year sentence in Russia after attempting to smuggle his elderly mother out of the Dnipropetrovsk region.

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 prosecution 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.