Higher and scarier

Information was thrown into the blogosphere designed to discredit one of the most popular bloggers, photographer and member of the Coordination Council Rustem Adagamov, known in LiveJournal under the name drugoi. Back in the fall, Adagamov’s ex-wife Tatyana Delsal, who lives in Norway, was interviewed in which she said that Adagamov is a pedophile and on this basis stalked an unnamed girl for 14 years. In LiveJournal, this information was published in several blogs, including by the former press secretary of the pro-Kremlin movement “Nashi” Kristina Potupchik. Correspondence allegedly between Adagamov and Delsalle was also published. True, as the author of the online almanac lebed.com Valery Lebedev writes , some bloggers allowed themselves to doubt the reliability of both the information provided and the correspondence itself - this is also indicated by some technical details, in particular, the discrepancy between the time indications in different letters and confusion with names of accounts from which Adagamov allegedly wrote.

The blogger himself promised to sue Potupchik for protection of honor and dignity, and possibly for libel. He also tweeted that he had been warned about the possibility of filming in Norway. He stopped blogging for a while, then returned, but only allowed friends to comment.

We see that prominent opposition figures have recently increasingly found themselves, thanks to the efforts of either government services themselves or those who help them, at the center of scandals, and some are facing several criminal cases. And yet, Adagamov, if not a leader, is in any case a well-known person, and, hopefully, we will hear many voices in his defense. But, unfortunately, not so many are inclined to defend ordinary activists, and even those with a penchant for radicalism. Meanwhile, on this front, the authorities have launched a real war with the use of heavy artillery.

According to ovdinfo.org, activist Pavel Shekhtman, a participant in various protests, including unauthorized ones, is accused of nothing less than armed robbery. The story began when activist Anna Dombrovskaya received a message threatening that her friend Anton would be beaten. The message was on behalf of Enteo (possibly Dmitry Enteo, aka Tsorionov, a well-known enemy of the defenders of Pussy Riot, a champion of Orthodoxy with fists). Dombrovskaya could not get help from the police, and she asked her friends to save Anton. They came to the apartment at 7/1 Dnepropetrovskaya Street, however, according to the site, according to Shekhtman, one of those who entered the apartment was shot from a traumatic weapon and hit in the forehead. (Anton turned out to be unharmed.) The police arrived and detained Shekhtman and took him to the Tsentralnoye Chertanovo police station. It later turned out that he was charged with armed robbery. He was left at the police station for 48 hours.

Shekhtman was among the defenders of the Khimki Forest; he went to Triumfalnaya on the 31st and to pickets on Red Square. He was repeatedly brutally beaten by the police. Shekhtman is known for his rather radical views, he does not mince words (for example, he recently swore at a representative of the so-called security wing of the Public Monitoring Commission, Anton Tsvetkov, a man who seems to be called upon to monitor the observance of the rights of detainees, but at the same time defends only the rights of police officers). Most often, only their close friends, associates and like-minded people stand up for such people; the number of people at rallies in their defense amounts to several dozen at best. However, if the case is actually initiated, it will not seem like much to anyone. We must keep an eye on all such stories.

Later, some details of the strange story in Chertanovo became known. The same Dmitry Enteo wrote in a blog that the above-mentioned Anton Loginov (as Gazeta.Ru writes, a person whose real name is Vadim Shcherbakov is known under this name on social networks) allegedly infiltrated a certain sect, whose members were preparing an assassination attempt on Putin and the burning of Orthodox churches, and when he refused to participate in their plans, he was told that they “can only be left through death.” According to Dombrovskaya, Anton’s “views on Orthodoxy have changed,” and, on the contrary, Orthodox radicals are threatening to kill him (see above quotes from Enteo’s messages). Among those who responded to Dombrovskaya’s proposal was, in addition to Shekhtman, a certain Sergei, who identified himself as a correspondent for Novaya Gazeta. At the entrance, they encountered Orthodox activist Alexander Karnoukhov, who saw Dombrovskaya’s Pussy Riot badge and began to agitate those who arrived so that they would not support the blasphemers. According to Shekhtman, Gazeta.Ru writes, when they approached Loginov’s (Shcherbakov) apartment, he opened the apartment door and rushed at them with a stun gun in his hands, and a man who introduced himself as a Novaya Gazeta correspondent opened fire with a traumatic weapon. Orthodox activists claim that two bullets hit Shcherbakov, and one hit Karnoukhov directly in the head. The bridge of his nose was pierced. Despite the wound, he ran out of the entrance after his opponents and threw Shekhtman to the ground. The arriving police detained Shekhtman, but on the morning of January 10 he was released after questioning as a witness. Karnoukhov was hospitalized, but was soon released from the hospital. In a video distributed on the Internet, he tells his version of what happened.

Novaya Gazeta reports that none of their correspondents could have participated in this story.

As for the main character of this story, Loginov-Shcherbakov, he told Gazeta.Ru that he really infiltrated the ranks of Pussy Riot defenders for the sake of entertainment and even invited Dombrovskaya to live with him, but only so that “the opposition would wash the floors.” at his home, and later staged his own kidnapping, and Enteo helped him with this. According to him, he opened the apartment door when he saw that activists had surrounded his friend Karnoukhov.