The poet Artyom Kamardin was sent for 30 days for a psychiatric examination. On November 23, an appeal was to be held in the Moscow City Court against the choice of detention for Artyom, but it became known that since November 21, the poet has been in the psychiatric hospital of the National Medical Research Center for Psychiatry. V. P. Serbsky for examination. The meeting did not take place due to the absence of Artyom. This is reported by the Mayakovsky case project, which was organized to support the poets of the Mayakovsky readings, suspected of inciting hatred for anti-war poems. In addition to Kamardin, the defendants in the case are 21-year-old Yegor Shtovba and 26-year-old Nikolai Deineko. All three are now in the Moscow SIZO-2 (Butyrka Detention Center).
On September 26, Arem Kamardin was detained in Moscow after a poetic action against mobilization. The security forces broke into the apartment of activists Artem Kamardin, Alexander Popova and Alexander Menyukov, opening the door with a grinder. The police did not let the lawyer into the apartment, referring to the fact that an operational-search activity was being carried out there – “inspection of the premises”. Kamardin was beaten, after which a dumbbell was shoved into his anus. Then the protesters were forced to apologize to the camera for the words "Glory to Kievan Rus."
Alexandra Popova, who was detained along with Kamardin, said that in the department, the security forces stuck stickers on her face with superglue.
“I have a lot of superglue on me, because the security forces stuck stickers to my face with superglue, tried to glue my mouth, pulled out my hair, kicked me, threatened to rape me with five of us,” Popova said. She also said that the security forces recorded the rape of Kamardin on video and showed it to her. A friend of the activists also said that after the search, $600 was missing from the apartment.