Oppositionist Dmitry Gudkov, his Relatives and Associates were Searched at their Summer House

"I have a search at my summer home near Kolomna," Gudkov wrote in his telegram channel.

He also said that searches are being carried out at the premises of his chief of staff Vitaly Venidiktov and former assistant, ex-chairman of Open Russia, Alexander Solovyov.

It is not yet known on what case the searches are being carried out. “I don’t know the formal reason. The real one is clear,” the oppositionist wrote.

 Later, the lawyer of the ex-chairman of “Open Russia” Solovyov, Gennady Fedorov, said that they came to him with a search in the case of causing property damage on an especially large scale (paragraph "b" of Part 2 of Article 165 of the Criminal Code) "allegedly for non-payment of a debt under a lease agreement non-residential premises in 2015 - 2017 ".

Soloviev is in the status of a witness in this case, said his lawyer.

 As Gennady Gudkov, ex-State Duma deputy and father of Dmitry Gudkov, specified on Twitter, riot police officers came to the summer house near Kolomna with searches. "The riot police broke into our summer house near Kolomna. Allegedly with a search. All phones are disconnected. The reason for the search is unknown. In the house there are sons with grandchildren and relatives".

Gudkov Sr. also said that they searched the apartment of his wife's sister in Moscow, as well as the building on Alexander Solzhenitsyn Street in the Tagansky District of Moscow, where his office was located eight years ago.

On the eve of the police detained at the Pulkovo airport in St. Petersburg, the former executive director of "Open Russia" Andrei Pivovarov. According to the BBC, he was detained in a criminal case under Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code (carrying out activities of an undesirable organization), which was initiated on May 29.

Last week, Open Russia announced about cessation its activities and closing its branches in the regions. As Pivovarov explained to the BBC, this is due to the authorities' plans to toughen the law on undesirable organizations, according to which activists of Open Russia, created by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, had already been prosecuted.