Sergei Udaltsov
| Sergei Udaltsov Сергей Удальцов |
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| Chairman of the Vanguard of Red Youth |
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Assumed office 4 May 1999 |
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| Chairman of the Russian United Labour Front |
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Assumed office 22 February 2010 |
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Udaltsov Sergey Stanislavovich 16 February 1977 Moscow |
| Spouse(s) | Anastasia Udaltsova, children Ivan (born in 2002) and Oleg (born in 2005) |
| Profession | lawyer |
Sergei Stanislavovich Udaltsov (Russian: Серге́й Станиславович Удальцов; born 16 February 1977) is a Russian political activist. He is the unofficial leader of the Vanguard of Red Youth (AKM). In 2011 and 2012, he helped lead a series of protests against Vladimir Putin. In 2014 he has been sentenced to 4 1/2 years in a penal camp for organizing the May 2012 protest which ended in violence between the police and demonstrators.
On 4 December 2011, the day of the Russian legislative elections, Udaltsov was arrested in Moscow for allegedly "resisting officers' recommendations to cross the road in the correct place" and detained for five days. As he finished this, Udaltsov was immediately rearrested and given a 15-day sentence for allegedly earlier leaving hospital without permission when he was being treated there during a previous, different period of detention in October. Around twenty officers came to pick him up, together with plainclothes members of the FSB.
Udaltsov was in the same prison as another activist, blogger Alexei Navalny. While in prison, Udaltsov went on hunger strike to protest against the conditions.
In December Amnesty International named him a prisoner of conscience and called for his immediate release. One of Udaltsov's lawyers, Violetta Volkova, applied to the European Court of Human Rights for his release, claiming a list of procedural violations.
As of 17 December 2011, since November 2010 Udaltsov had spent a total of 86 days in detention for a variety of minor crimes and misdemeanours. According to Nikolai Polozov, one of his lawyers, "These cases are fabricated as a deliberate obstacle to prevent Sergei from exercising his constitutional right to free political expression".
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