Separate disadvantages

In the Petrozavodsk City Court, hearing on the merits of the case, opened against the deputy of the Council of the Karelian city of Suoyarvi Vladimir Nakarkin, began. This was reported to the "Franes" by Petrozavodsky lawyer Natalya Kudrina, who, together with her capital's colleague Dmitry Dinze, represents the interests of the accused. Judge Eduard Novoselov leads the process.

The 58-year-old deputy was charged with part 1 of Article 280.1 of the Criminal Code (public calls for separatism). He faces up to four years in a colony.

The case was opened upon the performance of Kamarkin on the rally last 20 in Petrozavodsk for the resignation of the head of Karelia Alexander Khudilinen. The agreed action has gathered over 2 thousand people. In less than a two-minute speech, the deputy described a difficult socio-economic situation in Suoyarvi and sharply criticized the governor. He concluded his speech with the following words: “So we, probably, if the Russian Federation does not hear us, we will hold a referendum, I think. We don’t need Karelia of Russia - let's disconnect! This will be the right one!”

A month later, the FSB started the case. According to the indictment, the expert found that in the final phrases of Kamavarkin’s speech, there are “an incentive statement, calling for the disconnection of the Republic of Karelia from the Russian Federation, expressed in a non -cateic form of proposal.”

This indictment was read out at the hearing on Monday. After his announcement, Nakavarkin stated in response to the question of Judge Novoselov, that he would not plead guilty. The deputy did not deny that he uttered the phrases, but categorically did not agree with the interpretation of their calls to the separation of Karelia.

Further, during the hearings, the interrogation of witnesses was planned, but they did not appear in court. The next meeting in the case will be held on November 9; Start at 10:00.

Nakavarkin himself regarded his criminal prosecution as revenge by the authorities. The deputy explained that, protecting the rights of his voters, he regularly denounced city and regional officials in non -fulfillment of duties. The lawyer Kudrin also explains the initiation of the case.

On August 31, on the day the case was transferred to the court, Nakarkin was announced the dismissal from Karelenergo, where he worked as an electron-sized driver. Previously, the leadership offered the deputy to quit of his own free will, although it officially refuted it. As a result, Nakavarkin was fired under the pretext that he did not pass the obligatory annual medical examination and did not receive admission to work at altitude. However, the deputy noted, almost two dozen of his colleagues, who also have not passed this examination, continue to work.

“I won’t look for another job: in Suoyarvi it ​​simply does not,” he remarked to the local publication of the Daily province.