Housewife in the first circle

The FSB accused the housewife from Vyazma in the state treason for a call to the Embassy of Ukraine

On the morning of January 21, 2015, the housewife Svetlana Davydova, a resident of Vyazma (Smolensk region), was arrested by the FSB officers. She was charged under Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "State treason." In April last year, Davydova called the Embassy of Ukraine in Moscow and said that the military unit located opposite her house was empty, that, according to a woman, could be evidence of sending military personnel to the zone of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Members of the Presidential Council for Human Rights said they were taking control. Lawyers do not see in the actions of Davydova is a criminal nature, but they say that after amending the Criminal Code, almost any actions can be brought to the raising of the “state treason”.

Details of this story Radio Liberty were told by the husband of the arrested Anatoly Gorlov:

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Anatoly Gorlov - about the arrest of his wife Svetlana Davydova

- January 21, 2015 at 8:15 the district police officer came, supposedly neighbors complain about us that we are noisily behaving, although we have silence, this morning, the children are still sleeping. They opened - and here the FSB operational group burst into our lives. They took computers, equipment, records. At that time, when they were delayed, they did not say anything. But on January 26, I officially came to me an answer: “In accordance with the requirement of part 1 of Article 96 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, we notify that on January 21, 2015 at 11 hours 35 minutes on suspicion of committing a crime under Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, your wife Davydov S.V. about the place of its maintenance will be noted. In addition to especially important cases of the first department of the FSB of Russia, the investigator. Justice Colonel Mikhail Svinolup. ... "

Svetlana Davydova and her two -month -old daughter

- Do you know where Svetlana Vladimirovna is located now?

- Yes, now I know that she is in the Lefortovo investigative insulator, this is Lefortovo Val, house 5. Yesterday I handed her things. So far, in general, I ask about a date, including through the appointed lawyer, they say that there will be a date, it seems to be next week.

- Was the court as it was suppressed?

- Yesterday, the investigator came from the investigator that on January 22, a measure of restraint was elected by the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow in the form of detention with detention in jail. According to the investigator, for so far.

- Have you met with the investigator?

- I saw him, but neither he began to talk about details, nor I asked.

- Do you know the essence of the accusation?

-I know that she called the Embassy of Ukraine and, in general, expressed some position that was supposedly secret.

-Did your spouse have admission to some secret information?

- No! My wife has a higher economic education, she studied well, graduated with honors from school, technical school, institute textile and light industry, studied in graduate school, but she had no military education, no tolerances. She will not distinguish the “Ural” from the “gas”, for that matter.

The military unit No. 4886, which is discussed, is located opposite the multi -storey building in which Svetlana Davydova lives

Therefore, I do not know what kind of information she could, as they say, a large mother, on vacation to care for the child, out of the view from the window to get out and inform something secret. I can’t imagine this, honestly.

- And what does the appointed lawyer tell you?

- The lawyer does not say anything. He only promises to take her clothes, for example, something else. Purely establishing life, we will say so, as if he was putting some effort there. He says that "the article is very serious, that less than 12 years and more than 25 years will not be given to it."

- Do you have a feeling that the lawyer works for the investigation?

- Well, I don't know. I think that the investigation, the state will not appoint an unprofitable lawyer.

“ Do you have your lawyer yet?”

- Until I was oriented. You see, we are ordinary Russian citizens, we live in the province. We are not some kind of espionage group, so it is difficult for us to navigate in lawyers ...

- Do you really have the windows of the apartment over the military unit?

From our apartment, a small plot of military unit is visible. With the same success, every citizen can see this military unit in Google Maps

- From our apartment, part of the military unit is visible, the plot, yes, is visible. But with the same success, every citizen can gain Google Maps and see this military unit. Even more see than what we see from the window.

-It is simply not clear how to determine from afar, how some parts, for example, are sent to Ukraine ...

- Yes, she could not determine anything! I assume that it was a purely emotional call to the Embassy of Ukraine. She saw an empty part, suggested something, expressed her wishes so that people would not die. Ukraine is not only Ukrainians ethnically, in terms of language, but these are Russian and all. We are all people! And what is happening is just disgrace! She did not follow anything, she did not work for any special service, and she never had any tolerance to the secrets that she could sell! She accidentally heard in a route taxi the conversation of a soldier on the phone with another person. And I wrote down in the diary. "There is a record dated 04/24/2014, executed in a manuscript way:" Military personnel of the GRU of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on Monday arrive in Moscow in civilian clothes, as if in private, at their own expense. Weapons are planned to be obtained on the spot. They are going to be before the elections, and then according to the situation. Perhaps this information will help you save the lives of Ukrainians and the integrity of the country, ”the search protocol is written.

- That is, it turns out that your spouse, apparently, expressed her anti -war position so? She does not agree with Russia's participation in the conflict in Ukraine?

- Yes, she does not agree! And not just in the territory of Ukraine, but she does not agree at all with the war at all, and that actually peaceful people die, and the Russian people are drawn into some kind of intrigue. She does not agree! But she was not silent, she shared her friends, she argued somewhere on the street!

-Maybe the fact is that your spouse simply publicly expressed her position of rejection of war, and someone was dissatisfied with this?

- Maybe it can be. I’m reading the search protocol, and there are fragments from her diary, which was seized (it says: “A white paper sheet with records performed in typewritten way)”: “I am a large mother, the laws of human rights are worsening. Sooner or later I can encounter open violence against my family. Those bandits will be returned to Russia and continue to Russia and continue to Russia and continue obscurantism. " I did not rummage in the diaries of my wife, but they found this entry, also seized: "If in Ukraine they fight for the people, then in Russia Putin is fighting the people."

- That is, you knew her position. Are you against the war?

I am against the war. I believe that today's leadership of Russia is simply unworthy of the country that it leads! I'm not even afraid to say that

- Certainly! The position is similar, and I support my wife in this regard. I am against the war. I believe that today's leadership of Russia is simply unworthy of the country that it leads! I'm not even afraid to say it. Unworthy! That's the matter. And these attempts, these actions defeat Russia. If someone is cheating on Russia, then Putin is changing, I want to say that. I personally think that they are unworthy of a large, great country, such as Crimea, deeds!

- And who are you by profession, how many children do you have?

- Recently, I have been engaged in different ones, in private security enterprises I worked, we have seven children in our family, the youngest for two months for a girl. My wife is on parental leave, she has a two -month -old baby, breastfeeding.

I told these employees: "Mother are taking it ..." And they say: "Choose - either give a receipt that you are responsible, including for feeding, or we cause guardianship and we take the children from you." Naturally, I won’t go for it. But the mother was taken from a two -month -old child ...

- Now what will you do?

- I will try to find a more independent lawyer, I will convey to people the truth, to acquaintances, to the people what is happening. Glasses are my tool, without which the people cannot have freedom.

The appointed lawyer Svetlana Davydova Andrei Stebenev confirmed Radio Liberty that the case was instituted under the 275th article of the Criminal Code and that, in his opinion, Svetlana suffers because she “called where it was not necessary and said that it is not necessary”:

- She is accused of Gosizmen, of the fact that she issued information that makes up GOSTIN. According to the Ministry of Defense, preliminary, it is considered to be so. There will also be an examination what kind of information this is, how valuable they were, and her future fate will depend on this. The article is from 12 years.

Svetlana Davydova with children

- What will be the line of protection? Svetlana is a mother of many children ...

- She is a nursing mother, there are young children, and this, of course, will be taken into account. And in the very situation, I’ll just say that I called where it was not necessary to call, and said that it was not necessary to say. Our valiant bodies analyzed what was said and came to the conclusion, again this conclusion of the Ministry of Defense, that this information constitutes the GOSTINA and carries the harm of Russia's security. And immediately article 275 arose.

- In what conditions is it contained in Lefortovo and what is her condition?

- Her mood is combat, normal. Not crushed, well done. I, as I could, helped her humanly. There is no pressure there, the investigator is an intelligent person, and everything passes calmly.

Radio Liberty has already reported that the Moscow Investigative District of the FSB of Russia Lefortovo contains for several months Ukraine Yuri Soloshenko and Valentin Zagivsky , accused of espionage. The member of the Public Supervisory Commission, the journalist and human rights activist Zoya Svetova, who was arrested by their arrest, believes that a new wave of Spynomania is growing in Russia, associated with events in Ukraine, and the FSB fabricated against Svetlana Davydova is another confirmation:

Knowing the history of spy processes, such as the case of Sityagin, Danilov, Valentina Moiseev, I can well imagine that since now our enemy is Ukraine, we must find some spies there, and they have found them

-I get the impression that now we are returning to the time of spyingomania, which we had in the early 2000s, when all these spy processes with spies-scientists, pseudo-pioneers. Now we have another roll - we are looking for spies in Ukraine. In this version, I was able to make sure that I met Lefortovo quite by accident in Lefortovo, one of them was a 73-year-old former director of the Military Plant from Poltava, the Banner, Yuri Soloshenko, who is accused of espionage. And the second is Valentin Zagiyevsky, a 32-year-old small entrepreneur, and he is also accused of espionage in favor of Ukraine. They are not connected, these are two different things. And they seem to me absolutely delusional. Knowing the history of all the spy processes, such as the case of Sityagin, Danilov, the case of Valentin Moiseev, I can well imagine that since now our enemy is Ukraine, we must find some spies there, and they have found them.

The story of Svetlana Davydova, what her husband says is a completely crazy story. But remember, Solzhenitsyn had a story in one of his stories, as a man at the American embassy also called, and then he was also put down later. That is, these are, in general, such stories that also return us during the Cold War, ”says Zoya Svetova, journalist and human rights activist.

Members of the Russian Presidential Council for Human Rights said they were taking control of Davydova. According to Alexander Brod , he and his colleagues in the near future "will contact representatives of the Council in Smolensk."

The official letter with a request to understand this story was sent to the General of Russia to Yuri Chaika State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov:

The leader of the Yabloko party , Sergei Mitrokhin, sent an appeal addressed to the director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov to publish information on the progress of the criminal investigation against Svetlana Davydova, accused of Gosizman, and instruct the investigator to change the preventive measure for a softer one.

- The criminal case is absurd, and the decision to detain the mother of seven children is cynical and anti -law. The retelling of the conversation heard in the minibus does not fall under Art. 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, even taking into account the blurry formulations entered into this article in 2009 and 2012, ”says Sergey Mitrokhin . Leader of Yabloko emphasizes that the state authorities have repeatedly claimed, including in the answers to the party’s appeals, that there are no Russian military personnel in the Donbass, and Russia is not a side of the conflict in the south-east of Ukraine.

Lawyer Vladimir Zherebenkov is sure: Svetlana Davydova’s actions did not be criminal and accusations of Gosizmen are deprived of grounds. However, the changes accepted two years ago in the article "On the State treason" allow investigators to interpret its actions as you like:

What spy actions, what damage could she bring to the country with this information? There is no damage

- I believe that the signs of the Stateisms in her actions are not visible, since it was not allowed to state secret. The information with which she possessed was supposed. She saw that there were no people in the unit: but you never know-maybe they are on the exercises or perform some tasks. The fact that they are in Ukraine was an alleged conclusion.

It is difficult to say that it prompted her to call precisely the Embassy of Ukraine, each has their own psychology. In this case, there is definitely no signs of a crime, because these data, firstly, are not secret, and secondly, they were alleged. I do not understand the position of the investigation, which, based on alleged information, accused the person of state treason. What is the one that she could have assumed where they were, and called the embassy? What spy actions, what damage could she bring to the country with this information? There is no damage. "State treason" implies damage, awareness of GOSTINA, and in this case there is no damage.

Vladimir Zhebenkov

- How are the changes in the article "On Gosizmen", accepted two years ago , can affect the case of Svetlana Davydova?

- The article of the Criminal Code "On Gosizman" is expanding. The investigation may allow, assume. In this case, the assessment should be given to the Supreme Court, the legislators with this article were a little pushed. The investigation interprets the signs of the Stateizer for ourselves: here we will see the Stateizer, but here - no. This alleged nature of her actions allowed the investigation to hold her accountable precisely due to the fact that the article was formulated expansion. Maybe they need an indicator in work. Maybe psychologically affect someone. It's hard to say. In any case, unfortunately, our consequence is indictable. It seeks to protect the not rights and interests of citizens, but to work for an indicator. In this case, probably, an indicator was needed, and a criminal case was opened. I believe that this criminal case will not have a judicial perspective, ”says lawyer Vladimir Zherebenko in.

... This story resembles one of the plots of the novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn "in the first circle", but with an important difference. Innokenty Volodin called the American embassy, warned diplomats about the abduction threatening the world for Stalin secrets of the American atomic bomb.

Now, having created the case “On the betrayal of the Motherland” in connection with, apparently, the overheard of the call of the housewife Svetlana Davydova to the Embassy of Ukraine, the FSB investigators did not even understand that they were practically publicly disclosing the regime of Vladimir Putin so carefully hidden from Russian citizens and the “secret” known to the whole world is fighting in the territory of the neighboring state in the Donbass.