On a special Cossack gathering dedicated to the results of clashes with protesters on Pushkin Square in Moscow on May 5, Cossacks were punished, using force against demonstrators. This Business FM told a member of the Cossack association "The First Hundred" Vasily Yaschikov.
"They punished those who rebuffed the lashes. They got the Nagaika and they knew that next time, "he said..
The Tverskoy Court of Moscow on May 14 fined a thousand rubles for one of the men who were attacked with a whip on the participants of an uncoordinated action of men dressed in a Cossack uniform-the 28-year-old Yevgeny Fedorchenko. His act was qualified as petty hooliganism (Article 20. 1 of the Administrative Code).