
The FSB opened a case against Evgeny Kiselev under article 205.2 (public justification of terrorism) in connection with statements in support of Nadezhda Savchenko in the Ukrainian media. The TV presenter has been working in Ukraine since 2008 on his blog on Echo of Moscow.
"He spoke out in support of Nadezhda Savchenko, when she was still captured. In response to the question of one Ukrainian media, whether everyone was doing the Ukrainian authorities for her liberation, he said that they could act harder - just like the Russian authorities behaved in this whole story. So the“ Retail, ”says Kiselev.
Kiselev’s Moscow relatives are pressure. “The other day, my 88 -year -old mother -in -law, but do not live in the Moscow apartment of my 88 -year -old mother -in -law, came with the search of the FSBSHNI, police officers, as well as obviously dummy understoods without certifying their identity documents, one of which is a characteristic detail! - there was a mummy“ Cossack ”, obviously from the militants of Antimaydan,” the TV presenter writes.
Kiselev’s wife was repeatedly called for interrogation and threatened with a forced drive. At the same time, she was already during interrogation, where she refused to testify, taking advantage of Article 51 of the Constitution. “It is clear why this is done. They conducted an intimidation action. They want to get me through my relatives. To start exerting psychological pressure on them,“ nightmare ”, and creating all kinds of problems,” Kiselev notes.
“But no matter what threats sound to me, no matter how dirty they try to pour me, no matter how you try to intimidate me - in Moscow, in Kyiv or somewhere else, I do not intend to retreat from my beliefs,” the TV presenter writes.
Kiselev also mentioned the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in an open letter against him in relation to him. The TV presenter noted that he feels in Kyiv in relative safety. At the same time, Kiselev warns that he is not going to return to Russia. “So if it suddenly discovers that I somehow found myself in Russia, I voluntarily admit, I repent for something and so on-know: this is a Chekist staging in which I participate in addition to my will,” Kiselev said.
"The Putin regime is becoming tougher. There are already cases when people are prosecuted just for comment on Facebook or even a simple repost of some critical note," the journalist notes. In an open letter, he urged Poroshenko to facilitate the provision of asylum in Ukraine pursued in Russia for political views and beliefs.