Leonid Razvozzhayev

On 24 July 2014 a court in Moscow sentenced Leonid Razvozzhayev and Sergei Udaltsov to 4 1/2 years in a penal camp for organizing the May 2012 protest which ended in violence between the police and demonstrators.

Razovzzhayev is an aide to the opposition MP Ilya V. Ponomaryov. In October 2012, the pro-government news channel NTV aired a documentary titled Anatomy Of A Protest 2, which accused Razvozzhayev of meeting with Sergei Udaltsov (another opposition leader of the Left Front), Georgian politician Givi Targamadze, and Georgian consul to Moldavia Mikhail Iashvili for the purpose of discussing strategies of the opposition movement in Russia, its financing schemes, and a plan for overthrowing President Vladimir Putin. The documentary purported to show a low-quality secret recording of a meeting between Targamadze and Russian activists, which NTV stated had been given to its staff "on the street by a stranger of Georgian nationality". The Investigative Committee of Russia (SK) stated it had found the footage to be genuine, while bloggers debated its validity, stating that at least one fragment of footage was used twice with different voice-overs.

Leonid Mikhaylovich Razvozzhayev (Russian: Леони́д Миха́йлович Развозжа́ев ; born 12 June 1973 in Angarsk) is a member of the political coalition Left Front and an aide to Ilya Ponomarev, a member of the Russian Parliament. Razvozzhayev was kidnapped from Kiev, Ukraine in October 2012, allegedly by Russian security forces.