A malicious slope

The first criminal case was opened under an article on malicious evasion of the implementation of the requirements of the Law on Foreign Agents, Vedomosti reports . His defendant was the chairman of the Union of Don Woman Valentina Cherevatenko.

Article 330.1, which provides for up to two years in prison, was introduced into the Criminal Code in November 2012.

The decision to initiate the case says that Cherevatenko, "having criminal intent" for failure to fulfill the law, registered the fund of the same name in 2013. In June 2014, the Women of Don Union was forcibly included in the register of "agents". As stated in the document, the Fund in 2014-2015 carried out political activities, namely, conducted educational seminars and was engaged in the development of the potential of public figures. At the same time, he received foreign financing in the amount of about 3 million rubles. From the German Foundation named after Henry Bell. Cherevatenko, knowing that this organization performs the functions of the "agent", "deliberately" did not apply for its inclusion in the register, the resolution says.

Cherevatenko herself stated that her persecution was intensified after the launch of the Civil Minsk project for civil control over the implementation of the Minsk agreements. “We are not doing what they are trying to blame for. We haven’t had foreign money for a long time. The union was expelled from the registry, the fund refused to exclude the fund,” Cherevatenko said.

The chairman of the Human Rights Council, Mikhail Fedotov, noted that the initiation of the case tears the civil support of the Minsk process. “But I hope that the leadership of the TFR and the Prosecutor General will put an end to this and the case will be closed,” said the head of the HPC.

At the same time, Fedotov called Article 330.1 an old version of the Law on Agents. “After the Ministry of Justice was entrusted with the NPO himself in the register, this article lost its legal meaning, it had to be excluded from the Criminal Code, but it was preserved there, and the security forces were trying to breathe life into it,” the head of the refiner said.

“The article remains, although its legal significance has lost its meaning. Now it is an act of intimidation: no matter what you come up with if you receive foreign financing, we will not be behind you,” the lawyer of the international group “Agora” Ramil Akhmetgaliev curled up:

On May 24, it was reported that the TFRbegan a pre -investigation verification against Cherevatenko. The NGO led by her was one of the first to be included in the register of "foreign agents". Investigators find out whether there are voluntarily signs of malicious violations in their refusals.

On May 6 and 10, Cherevatenko had already visited the investigators. Also, employees of the Investigative Committee questioned a number of employees of a human rights organization, including an accountant.

On July 24, searches were held in the offices of the Women of the Don and the Foundation of the same name.

Cherevatenko heads the Coordination Council of the Union of Don, created in the Novocherkassk of the Union of Don, who was engaged in the legal education of the population, protecting the rights of conscripts and military personnel. At the same time, it is also the chairman of the board of the same fund.

The union was forcibly included in the register of "foreign agents" in 2014, among the first five NPOs. The fund was forcibly included in the register in 2015. Both organizations appealed this decision, the proceedings are still underway. At the same time, on April 7, 2016, the union was expelled from the register, since during the year he did not receive foreign financing, which, according to the law, allows us to remove the corresponding status from NGOs.