Anatomy of the left front

In the regions of Russia there are searches and arrests of activists of the Left Front.

So, only in November searches took place with activists in Yoshkar-Ola , Ivanovo . In Moscow, in the case of riots in Bolotnaya Square , political scientist Boris Kagarlitsky was searched . In addition, the prosecutor's office began checking the organization for extremism . Oppositionists believe that an organization’s ban on the example of the NBP is possible in 2007.

After the testimonies of the organization of the organization Leonid Razvoszhaev that he was preparing riots in Russia for Georgian money, some activists of the organization had to leave the country. Anastasia Udaltsova, a press secretary of the Left Front and the wife of Sergei Udaltsov, also left. According to her, she does not plan to hide abroad and left for Ukraine to visit children. The surnames of others who left Russia left activists in the Left Front did not want to disclose. The confessions , which Leonid Razvoszhaev later refused , were mentioned by opposition Aleksey Navalny, Boris Kagarlitsky, Maxim Firsov, Viktor Shapinov and Sergey Udaltsov. PublicPost interviewed friends with the situation around the left front.

Anastasia Udaltsova, press secretary of the Left Front:

"I haven’t run away from Russia anywhere, I am not going to hide. If someone spreads such rumors, then this is a duck. I often go to Ukraine to relatives, our children study here. About the left front-I think they will try to ban."

Alexey Zagarin, member of the Left Front, Honored Economist of the RSFSR, Candidate of Economic Sciences:

"I went to interrogation, they were interested in two things: who and how to finance the left front and a list of organizations of the organization. Of course, I did not say anything to them, which I advise everyone. They demonstrated to me that they already have their own list of people from the left front, who will still carefully read the Ultimatum newspaper in search of extremism, it was published by the left front, as it is not a year old as it was not It turns out that they will conduct an examination of the rooms.

Sergey Udaltsov, coordinator of the left front:

"Formally, the case, starting on activists in Yoshkar-Ola, does not apply to the Razvozhaev case, or the prohibition of the left front, this is a separate case. They are trying to accuse them of organizing riots of Yoshkar-Ola. Formally, I repeat, but of course, I have no doubt. We still have searches for activists in Ivanovo, in Ivanovo, in Ivanovo. Rostov and Voronezh, but there are some specific affairs, I called me for interrogation, I went, they were interested in the legitimacy of the left front.

Boris Karelitsky, director of the Institute of Problems of Globalization, one of the founders of the Left Front; After the testimony of Razvoszhaev, he searched:

"I have a distant one to the left front, I only participated in the constituent conference. The search that I had been conducted in the framework of the swamp business-it was rather a PR action for me, however, I did not order it, honestly. As for what is happening with the left front, then the situation is paradoxical: the left front is collapsing naturally, and pressure from the state, rather, people, especially the organization. In the regions, they are very embittered by Udaltsov, but in the current circumstances, those who wanted to dissolve from him can not do it because of moral reasons. They will give them a chance. "

Ilya Zhuravlev, activist of the Left Front (Ivanovo):

"On November 7, there were searches of activists in Ivanovo. For example, the activist of the Left Front Timur Orlov and the activist of the" solidarity "of Mikhail Gresev. All this was carried out by the investigative committee of Moscow, investigators from the capital conducted interrogations, and all this mess was due to the film" Anatomy of Protest-2. "They asked questions about Razvozhaev and Lebedev, are they familiar with whether they were familiar. Allegedly, they have a hard drive and flash drives on the video of the Lithuanian embassy. At first she sentenced himself to the neighbors who were allegedly flooded, he did not let them into the apartment, then the door was demolished by special forces.

Now people in civilian clothes go to the apartments of activists of the Left Front, they come to work, disturb relatives and conduct educational conversations, even came to one activist to relatives of his wife. I think intimidation is taking place, they are looking for information for the ban, but it will be difficult to initiate the case from what they removed from us, if they want to ban, then they act sluggishly. ”

Pavel Tolmachev, activist of the Left Front (Yoshkar-Ola):

"On November 9, two more activists of the Left Front and the" Construction Union "were detained in Yoshkar-Ola-Andrei Svistunov and Ivan Mosunov. We were taken to the Investigative Committee and interrogated. I am accused under Article 212 of Part 3 of the Criminal Code for the organization of riots on VKontakte social networks. Preparations for the constitutional system (Article 205, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, again, on the Vkontakte network. I requested them, a change of preventive measure in the city was threatened with only sanctioned rallies, we created groups of these rallies in the network, notes in these groups in which we scold the power, they now present that if they put us, they will ban our freedom to protect our freedom? That after that we will not play for her? We will. When there are no free elections in society, freedom of statements - they need to be achieved! ”

Vitaly Varivoda, lawyer, conducted the case of the NBP during the prohibition procedure:

"In the case of the NBP there were three criminal cases in different parts of the country, in various facts, the participants in the organization took place in one case, just sympathizers who did not have a party ticket and not obeying party discipline. The sentences were sentenced, and after that the prosecutor's office of the Moscow Region submitted an application for recognition of the NBP extremist and the ban on its activities. This happened in 2007. Subsequently, we passed the higher authorities, and then filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights.