Translated material
Political pressure: media digest (November 13-19, 2014)
"Bolotnaya case"
The sentence against Dmitry Ishevsky was upheld
“The Moscow City Court on Wednesday upheld the sentence of Dmitry Ishevsky, sentenced to 3 years and 2 months in prison for participating in mass riots on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the courtroom. At the same time, part of the civil claims were excluded from the verdict, but the sentence remained unchanged.”
“Novaya Gazeta”, November 19 :
“Ishevsky’s defense asked to change his sentence to a more lenient one, pointing out that he had not been convicted before, fully admitted guilt and there were no aggravating circumstances in his case. Lawyer Alevtina Tukina noted that the Zamoskvoretsky court, which passed the sentence, did not fully take into account the positive characteristics of the defendant and the fact that he had two elderly dependent parents. Ishevsky said in his last word that he admitted guilt, counting on a less severe sentence, but “received a longer sentence than if he had not admitted guilt.” “I fully repaid the damage, apologized, and there are no further claims from the victims. I did everything in my power to reconcile the parties. I am not a criminal, everything that happened on May 6 happened by pure chance, and I don’t want this to happen again. I have a family, my mother is sick,” Ishevsky said. The person involved in the “Bolotnaya case” said that during the investigation his wife was pregnant, but lost the child, his mother fell ill with cancer, and his father was fired from the factory where he worked.”
prosecution
The leader of the Novosibirsk branch of RPR-PARNAS was searched
“Novaya Gazeta”, November 18 :
“On November 17, the leader of the Novosibirsk branch of RPR-PARNAS, a member of the federal Politburo of Solidarity, Yegor Savin, was detained at the Novosibirsk airport by local security forces and taken for interrogation. Let us remind you that two months ago the activist was suspected of hooliganism . However, last Monday they explained to Savin that he is now suspected of extremism. After the interrogation, the police went to his home. “The court gave them a search warrant,” Yegor told Novaya. — They were interested in the laptop. They promised that they would only look at it and not take it away, but they deceived it. They said they would return it in two days.” Savin’s laptop contains a video - “Appeal of the Siberian Militia to the criminal government of the Kremlin.” Savin reposted this video on his VKontakte page on August 17 (he was one of the organizers of the failed “March for the Federalization of Siberia”), accompanying it with the caption: “Cool :) Very similar to the tricks of the security officers.” The words spoken in the video by the masked “militia”, without a doubt, fall under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Inciting hatred and enmity.” It’s unclear what Yegor Savin has to do with this. “So you can,” he says, “bring to justice” any person who liked it.”
The company of Navalny's ally's wife is being checked for fraud.
“Novaya Gazeta”, November 19 :
“The Investigative Committee began an investigation based on information from LifeNews that opposition politician Alexei Navalny was financed by the authorities through the company of Alexandrina Markvo, the common-law wife of his colleague Vladimir Ashurkov. <...> According to the preliminary version of the investigation, violations were committed when concluding government contracts with the companies “Buro17” and “Slava”. The investigation is conducting an investigation into employees and managers of the companies “Bureau17” and “Slava”, which won competitions for the implementation of government contracts under government orders of the Moscow government. In particular, the investigation is checking Alexandrina Markvo and Olga Voznaya, the development director of Bureau17 and the owner of Slava. The audit is carried out under the article “fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale.” The investigation asked the publication to send all the materials that Lenta.Ru has on the case of Navalny’s financing. The editors stated that the notes on the site were published solely based on data from LifeNews. On November 6, LifeNews published an article with the headline “The Kremlin secretly financed Navalny,” which said that the activities of the opposition politician were financed through Alexandrina Markvo, who received money by regularly winning government tenders to conduct various events for the mayor’s office and the Federal Agency for Press and mass communications. A TASS source in the Kremlin called the information about Navalny’s financing “complete nonsense and a pursuit of ratings.”
Four residents of Ulyanovsk are accused of creating a cell of a non-existent but banned organization
“On November 10, 2014, in Ulyanovsk, charges were brought against four local residents in the case of creating a cell of the banned organization Nurcular. Bagir Kazikhanov is accused of organizing the activities of a banned organization under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code, and A. Melentyeva, S. Kudryashov and F. Allakhverdiev - in participation in such under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. According to investigators, the accused studied and discussed the books of the Turkish theologian Said Nursi, and also disseminated his ideas among Muslims. The investigation is based on the texts of books seized from the accused and transcripts of the results of listening to their conversations. At the same time, the charge was brought based on the results of a comprehensive historical, religious and philological examination, the authors of which were unlawfully asked questions within the competence of the court. Let us note that in Ulyanovsk Muslims who studied the works of Nursi were previously persecuted .”
In Rostov, a case involving another cell of the same organization was brought to court
“On November 17, 2014, the prosecutor’s office of the Rostov region reported that the case under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organizing the activities of an extremist organization) against Gadzhibek Izmailov. According to investigators, from November 2012 to May 2013, Ismailov, knowing about the ban on the Nurcular organization, organized at his home in Rostov-on-Don “the study by several persons of extremist brochures” prohibited by the decision of the Koptevsky District Court of Moscow.” .
Kemerovo blogger, convicted of insulting government officials, interrogated in a similar case
“Journalist and blogger Dmitry Shipilov, who evaded correctional work for “insulting” the governor of Kuzbass Aman Tuleyev and was later arrested in connection with the replacement of their term in a penal colony, was interrogated in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Kemerovo on a second criminal case - also about “insulting” the governor . The political prisoner's lawyer Farit Murtazin told Grani about this after a telephone conversation with investigator Natalya Batalova, who interrogated Shipilov. The prisoner refused to answer Batalova’s questions, citing Article 51 of the Constitution. Murtazin added that the current criminal case was opened on January 1, 2013 based on the appearance of a post “Better late than never” on Shipilov’s blog in May 2012. [Later it became known that the reason for initiating the case were two articles on the New Kuzbass portal. — OVD-Info ] <…> On June 20, 2012, Shipilov wrote that another criminal case had been opened against him - precisely in connection with the post “Better late than never.” However, Murtazin's current message indicates that this case was opened later. Later, information appeared about a third case against Shipilov, but it was not confirmed.”
The court chose a preventive measure for Mokhnatkin in the form of a recognizance not to leave
“The Tverskoy Court of Moscow chose a preventive measure in the form of a recognizance not to leave the place against oppositionist Sergei Mokhnatkin, accused of beating two policemen. According to Interfax , the court thus granted the investigation's request. Mokhnatkin himself today refused a lawyer, and the court allowed him to defend himself independently.”
An administrative case has been filed against the creator of a project dedicated to LGBT teenagers.
“An administrative case has been opened against Nizhny Tagil journalist, creator of the human rights project “Children-404” Elena Klimova - she is accused of promoting non-traditional sexual relationships among minors. The journalist herself wrote about this in her LiveJournal. The protocol was drawn up in absentia, since Klimova was unable to come to Moscow from Nizhny Tagil, where she lives. Klimova’s place of residence was denied consideration of the case; the case will be heard in the Magistrate’s Court in Moscow. The protocol, in particular, states that the materials of the “Children-404” project “in general are capable of evoking in children the idea that to be gay means to be a person who is courageous, strong, confident, persistent, with self-esteem and self-respect.” , “these comments openly express a negative attitude towards a mother who condemns a homosexual teenager,” “there is practically no information in this community that these relationships are non-traditional in the understanding of the norms, customs and foundations of the Russian Federation.” On November 14, it became known that the Roskomnadzor office for the Central Federal District found signs of propaganda of homosexuality among minors in the “Children-404. LGBT Teenagers” community on the social network “VKontakte”. According to Klimova, the Roskomnadzor department for the Central Federal District sent her a telegram and an email inviting her to appear at the department of supervision in the field of mass communications in Moscow on November 18 to draw up a protocol on an administrative offense under Part 2 of Art. 6.21 Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation. Klimova said that she refused to Roskomnadzor.”
The court found that the director of the Institute of Regional Press was lawfully confiscated - an investigation is underway for the presence of extremist materials
“The Moscow District Court of St. Petersburg on Friday refused to satisfy the complaint of the director of the Institute of Regional Press, Anna Sharogradskaya, against the actions of customs officers at Pulkovo Airport, who confiscated all electronic media with personal data from her during an inspection, the secretary of the judge Tatyana Lemekhova told RAPSI. In early June, customs officers at St. Petersburg Pulkovo Airport seized a laptop, iPad and flash cards from Anna Sharogradskaya, who was flying to the United States. The search lasted several hours, during which a lawyer was not allowed to see Sharogradskaya, who was already in the departure hall. Customs officers drew up a “sampling and sampling” report for the seized items. Sharogradskaya’s flight to the USA then had to be rescheduled to the next day. Earlier, Sharogradskaya, in a conversation with a RAPSI correspondent, said that the confiscated items had not yet been returned to her. Sharogradskaya connected the incident that happened to her with an extraordinary inspection by the Ministry of Justice of the Institute of Regional Press (IRP) carried out in the spring at the initiative of the prosecutor's office. On November 7, it became known that the Ministry of Justice brought the individual entrepreneur to administrative responsibility for carrying out the activities of an NPO-foreign agent without appropriate registration.”
“We note that during the audit, materials from Sharogradskaya’s files are examined, which contain, in particular, the expressions “methods of terrorist attacks,” “coup d’etat,” “methods of national propaganda,” which Sharogradskaya took from open sources. Sharogradskaya’s lawyer, Ivan Pavlov, noted on his page on the social network Facebook that none of the materials seized from Sharogradskaya should fall under the law on extremism, even if “some expert in uniform” considers them as such, because “it is criminally punishable distributing extremist materials, rather than storing them on your computer."
In Mordovia, a human rights activist was fined for the word “moron”
“On October 12, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Saransk fined human rights activist Sergei Maryin for the word “moron.” The word was spoken in hearts after yet another refusal by the head of correctional colony No. 10, Sergei Zabaikin, to meet with a prisoner and was recorded on a surveillance camera. Maryin himself told Kasparov Ru’s correspondent about this. Before the incident, the head of the colony repeatedly refused to allow Maryin to meet with prisoners. The court declared the refusals illegal, but the situation repeated itself. The human rights activist arrived in the colony on July 1 to meet with the convict and filed a statement. He did not see the boss; he was given a statement with Zabaikin’s resolution to refuse a meeting. After reading it, Maryin asked whether the head of the colony himself imposed it? After confirmation, he said the word "jerk" and tried to leave. This fragment, recorded on a surveillance camera, was presented to the court. Two colony officers forced Maryin to talk about the addressee of this word, the human rights activist replied that this was his attitude to the resolution, but the conversation was not recorded in the submitted recording. The fragment recorded on a surveillance camera and the testimony of Zabaikin’s colleagues became the basis of a lawsuit to protect his honor, dignity and business reputation. The head of the colony demanded 30 thousand rubles for his moral suffering. In court, Maryin explained that he had no intention of insulting Zabaikin, but only showed his emotional attitude towards his refusal as an action of an official. The court reduced the amount of compensation requested to 20 thousand rubles.”
A second case has been filed against the human rights activist in connection with the registration of displaced persons.
“Civic Assistance” website, November 14 :
“ Tatyana Mikhailovna Kotlyar, a deputy of the Obninsk City Assembly, a member of the Migration and Law Network of the Memorial Human Rights Center, continues to be persecuted
To the criminal case initiated in March of this year on fictitious registration and migration registration of foreign citizens (Articles 322.2 and 322.3), another charge under the same articles was added. Both cases were initiated due to the fact that Kotlyar is registering migrants in his apartment - participants in the State Program for Assistance to the Voluntary Resettlement of Compatriots from Abroad. In order to obtain Russian citizenship in a simplified manner, this category of citizens needs registration at the place of stay in the Russian Federation, which they cannot obtain without the help of people like Tatyana Mikhailovna. True, if the first time the investigation had formal grounds to initiate prosecution, now the case has been opened clearly illegally. Kotlyar is accused of acts that she committed even before Articles 322.2 and 322.3 were included in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The resolution to initiate the case states that Tatyana Mikhailovna registered foreign citizens in her apartment in 2013, and the articles under which the human rights activist is accused came into force only at the beginning of 2014 , that is, the articles were given retroactive force. And this contradicts the Criminal Code itself, the Constitution of the Russian Federation, and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Today, November 13, Kotlyar sent a complaint to the court demanding that the initiation of the second criminal case be declared illegal. Meanwhile, the preliminary investigation in the first case has been going on for more than eight months, and the materials have not yet been submitted to the court.”
A Moscow opposition municipal deputy was deprived of his mandate because of his second citizenship; the deputy claims that the documents presented as evidence are false
“The municipal assembly in Troparevo-Nikulino deprived the opposition municipal deputy Garnachuk of his mandate: in his absence, by a simple vote - on the basis of certain documents, without confirming their authenticity. Naturally, the opinions of voters who trusted the deputy to represent their interests were not asked either. <...> Garnachuk was elected to the municipal assembly in the wake of the protests of 2011-1012, he is a Moscow businessman, born in Moldova, and in 1987 he moved to Moscow. Like many other independent municipal deputies, in a short time he became known thanks to local “wars” with the government, and at the beginning of 2014, imbued with the idea of returning Crimea to Russia, he went there to join local self-defense. <…> As it turned out, the municipality convened an extraordinary meeting on October 31. The agenda included the approval of print press stalls and the item “Miscellaneous,” said Troparevo-Nikulino municipal deputy Irina Leskova. “When I was called to the municipality, I didn’t even know that there would be a meeting of deputies. Then they announced that in the “Miscellaneous” section the issue of early deprivation of powers of deputy Vladimir Garnachuk would be considered, we were shown a document supposedly from the government of Moldova that he is a citizen of this country “I had questions, and I did not vote for depriving him of his powers,” Leskova explained. Other deputies who voted “for” agreed to speak with the correspondent only informally. According to them, Garnachuk is accused of violating Article 131 of the federal law “On the general principles of organizing local self-government in the Russian Federation.” According to this article, which almost verbatim copies the same article from the law on the status of State Duma deputies, “the powers of a deputy, a member of an elected body of local self-government, an elected official of local self-government are terminated, among other things, in cases of “termination of citizenship of the Russian Federation” and “termination of citizenship of a foreign states - a participant in the international treaty of the Russian Federation, in accordance with which a foreign citizen has the right to be elected to local authorities. "It is noteworthy that the regulations for deprivation of authority, as in the case of the State Duma, is not registered. Meanwhile, Garnachuk submitted documents to the disposal of the editorial office and The audio recordings can be concluded that his powers were terminated prematurely on the basis of fake, and not genuine documents. - The Republic of Moldova, which contradicts his duties as a municipal deputy in Moscow. Garnachuk contacted the Foreign Ministry of Moldova and received a certificate from him that the paper, which was supposed to have a second citizenship, "is not genuine." This answer is also at the disposal of the editorial office. He also has an audio recording of a conversation with the civil servant of Moldova Lyudmila, a police officer, whose surname has signed a certificate about the presence of a second citizenship. “This department, on whose behalf it is written, is disbanded ... The hat is not true. I don’t have such a press. And my deputy could not sign it .... We didn’t do this ...”, the official is perplexed in a conversation with Garnachuk. The head of the municipal district of Treparevo-Nikulino Sergey Kulikov explained that now the municipality is conducting an additional check on the scandalous situation. “The appeal was received to our address, the facts have been set out. Now we are conducting an additional check. My comment is that an additional check is conducted,” Kulikov noted in a conversation with a correspondent. However, on the repeatedly asked question why they held a meeting on the early termination of the powers of Garnachuk without any additional checks, could not answer. Meanwhile, according to Garnachuk, it was Kulikov who interested his authority. According to the deputy, the head of the municipality is associated with one of the companies that provide housing and communal services for the district for the state. In August, Garnachuk explains, the Moscow prosecutor’s office agreed with his arguments and sent an idea of Kulikov’s violation of legislation to the municipality (the document is at the disposal of the editorial office). Lawyer Valentin Karelin believes that Garnachuk has reason to dispute the early termination of his authority in court. ”
Political emigration
The persecuted for the recovery on social networks received political asylum in Ukraine
“Russian oppositionist Alexei Teslenko and his family received refugee status in Ukraine. The decision to recognize the activist pursued in Russia by the refugee was made at the end of the six -month period allotted according to the law. The State Migration Service of Ukraine recognized the criminal case against the Russian. Recognition of a refugee means the right of Teslenko and his family to live legally and work in Ukraine. This was announced by Kasparov.ru by the activist himself. As Teslenko noted, one of the members of the government took part in his case, who sent an official request for his case to the State Migration Service of Ukraine. The activist believes that this could play a role when giving him the status of refugees. Recall that in Russia a criminal case has been instituted against Teslenko under the article “Public calls for extremist activity” in connection with the repost “VKontakte” “Russophobia of the post”. The record is devoted to an aggressive reaction of a significant part of Russians to the Maidan. The anonymous author spoke extremely sharply about the moral qualities of people who supported the dispersal of the Maidan, and called on Ukrainians in case of the victory of the revolution to deprive the "Rusnya" of "citizenship".
The Russian actor who went to the Maidan also asked for political asylum
“ Today, the Odessa Appeal Administrative Court should begin the consideration of a very unusual case, the defendants of which are the Russian actor and the Office of the State Migration Service in the Kherson region. The first wants to get the status of a political refugee, and the second refuses him to be assured that there is simply no similar status in Ukraine. In addition to acting, the man took an active part in the political life of St. Petersburg, and participated in the marsh of disagreements. The consequences did not force a long time. “I began to receive threats, on acting sites they began to gradually shoot or change information about me,” says Anisiforov. In October 2013, he moved to Ukraine with a firm intention to obtain citizenship and settle in Odessa. Then the Maidan struck, which the Russian oppositionist went from a call to a bell: Merz in tents, saw the blood and death of his comrades, received a contusion. The path to Russia was ordered, and Anisiforov submitted documents to the Migration Service in the Kherson region to receive political asylum, but received a refusal without any explanation. Then he filed a lawsuit against the actions of the HMS, but here is also failure. “The judge told me that if I were judged by political reasons in Russia, then maybe his decision was different,” says Sergey, who continues the struggle and is preparing for the next stage of the lawsuit. At the moment, he lives in the country with acquaintances in the Ovidiopolsky district and is in the "self -defense" of Odessa. In addition, Sergei said that today's meeting will be held with an absent lawyer, and this is fraught with deportation and repression in Russia for the actor, which he publicly abandoned. We turned to the HMS with a request to comment on the situation. We were informed that in Ukraine there is no “Political refugee” status, therefore, it makes no sense to achieve this: “The main form of protection of foreign citizens in Ukraine is the recognition of a refugee or a person that requires additional protection. Instead of demanding a non -existent status of a “political refugee”, this person should submit documents to obtain a residence permit, which would make it possible to get citizenship in three years. ” In turn, lawyers consider the position of the migration service a game of words, but they admit that they really give a political asylum in Ukraine. ”