A teacher from the Oryol region, whose poems dedicated to Ukraine were considered extremist, received an anonymous letter with a death threat

Alexander Byvshev, a school German language teacher from the village of Kromy, Oryol region, who was accused of inciting hatred or enmity in connection with writing poems addressed to “Ukrainian patriots,” received a letter in which an unknown addressee threatened to kill him. The letter says that "there is a very high probability" not to live to see the trial, since the addressee is going to pass his own, "very harsh" sentence on him. From Byvshev they promise to "tear off the skin in pieces." An unknown ill-wisher advises Byvshev to “walk and look around and shudder at every rustle” and warns that he will suddenly appear in front of him. At the same time, the addressee claims that all members of the family of his former relative died at the hands of Bandera on March 8, 1944 in the village of Nova-Brikulya, Strusovsky district, Tarnopol region.

Byvshev told OVD-Info that he had approached the chief of the local police, who promised him to contact the staff of the Center for Combating Extremism in the Oryol Region and "take this matter under control." “It is interesting to know that our valiant Russian law enforcement agencies will just as zealously take up the initiation of a criminal case on the fact of the threat of physical violence and murder, will begin to actively conduct examinations and other investigative actions, as was the case with me because of my two poems in support of an independent Ukraine? Or will they calmly (and maybe even somewhere with secret gloating) wait for the onset of a bloody denouement? Byvshev writes. However, I have no illusions here. In the meantime, I have to take the most necessary personal security measures - anything can happen.

Two cases of inciting hatred or enmity have already been initiated against Byvshev - one in connection with the poem "Ukrainian Patriots", which has already been recognized as extremist material, the second in connection with the poem "Ukrainian Insurgents", dedicated to Stepan Bandera and militants from the UPA.