Patyaeva released from police

Security officials released Lena Patyaeva, who was detained at a picket demanding that Seda Suleimanova's killers be punished, after taking a pledge from her to appear.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" reported, Lena Patyaeva, two years after security officials took Seda Suleimanova to Chechnya, went out today to picket in St. Petersburg demanding that her friend's killers be punished. According to sources, Suleimanova was killed and buried in Chechnya back in November 2023, human rights activists reported. Four hours after the start of the picket near the Akhmat Kadyrov Bridge, she was detained and taken to the police station.

Lena Patyaeva has been released from the police station, and has been required to appear, the "Word to Defense" project reported today.

Lena Patyaeva spent about three hours at the police station. She could not be questioned for a long time in connection with the drone attack in St. Petersburg, the OVD-Info Live project reported*.

St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov reported two neutralized unmanned aerial vehicles - in the Pushkinsky and Krasnoselsky districts of the city. It is known that one of the drones fell near the Ogni Zaliva residential complex on Leninsky Prospekt, RBK writes.

On June 16, 2025, it became known that the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs had declared Suleimanov wanted. This indicates rather an imitation of activity, since when a criminal case is initiated, all active actions to search for a missing person are carried out at the discretion of the Investigative Committee investigator, human rights activists pointed out. It is noteworthy that the police officers who detained Patyaeva after the March picket in Grozny, called Suleimanova's fate a "family matter".