
The activist of the Russian socialist movement Konstantin Lebedev was charged as part of a criminal case of preparation for the organization of riots, reports the TFR. Lebedev was charged with committing a crime under paragraph 1 of Article 30, part 1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code. In accordance with the requirements of the criminal procedure legislation, the charging procedure took place in the presence of Lebedev’s lawyer Violetta Volkova.
"Lebedev did not admit the guilt of the charges and testified due to the circumstances of the preparation of the preparation for the organization of riots that he was charged with," the TFR said in a statement.
On Wednesday, the TFR detained Lebedev 48 hours after interrogation in the criminal case on the preparation of riots. According to investigators, "eyewitnesses directly point to Lebedev as a person who committed a crime," Volkov wrote on Twitter.
The leader of the Left Front, Sergei Udaltsov, was also questioned and released under the recognizance not to leave. He was taken for interrogation after a search in his apartment. The searches also took place with the parents of Udaltsov and the civil wife of Leonid Razvozhaev - the third person involved in the criminal case, assistant to the State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev.
Lebedev is located on Petrovka, 38, there are single pickets in his support, the Echo of Moscow reports . In the evening, pickets will be held at the TFR building.
On Saturday in Moscow, a rally will be held in support of Udaltsov and other defendants in political affairs. The mayor's office agreed on rallies in support of the elections to the opposition Council on Saturday and Sunday on Trubnaya Square. The Saturday rally will begin at noon. “Recent events force us to contact you and call on to come to this rally with friends and relatives,” the organizers say. “If we don’t say no, then no one will say. We will see each other on Saturday at 12. There will be many of us.”
“Friends! My exit from the UK for a non -place of loss is in many ways your merit. Thank you for your support! Now you have to fight for Lebedev!” Wrote Sergey Udaltsov on Twitter. “Today, approach Petrovka, 38, and by 18.00 - to occupy the UK! One for all, and all for one!”
The criminal case against Udaltsov, Lebedev and Razvoszhaev was instituted following the audit of the film "Anatomy of Protest-2". The phonoscopic examination showed that the voice in the film "Anatomy of Protest-2" belongs to Udaltsov. "There are no signs of installation in video materials," the press service of the Investigative Committee emphasizes. "The meeting, the fragments of which are shown in the film, took place in the second half of June 2012 in a residential premises in the capital of the Republic of Belarus Minsk. The chairman of the Georgian and Security Committee of Givi Targamadze, the Georgian Consul in Moldova Mikhail Iashvili, as well as three of their assistants, took part in the meeting, the leader of the left front of S. took part in the meeting with the Georgian side. Udaltsov, his assistant K. Lebedev, assistant to the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Ilya Ponomarev L. Razvozhaev, ”the report said.
The investigation intends to verify the messages "on the preparation by the participants of the specified meeting of terrorist acts in the territory of the Russian Federation." If this information is confirmed, the investigation intends to prosecute all participants in the terrorist conspiracy, including Georgian citizens, said the representative of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin.