"I called the FSBSHNIK an earthworm"

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg returned the criminal case of a civilian activist, nationalist Dina Garina, who is accused of arousing hatred against the social group "Employees of the Center for Combating Extremism".

Dina Garina - a versatile activist, she consisted of various nationalist organizations - was a member of the movement against illegal immigration forbidden several years ago, participated in the organization of Russian marches, consisted in the organization "National Democrats", which had already broken up, in the ethnopolitical association "Russians". In addition, she actively participated in the city -protective movement, collaborated with the movement "against the capture of lakes."

The case of the initiation of hatred of the employees of the Center "E" is already the second criminal case against Dina Garina. And the first was excited back in 2015 - for calls to participate in an unauthorized mass event. Then Dina spent several months under arrest, but the case still ended with a conditional sentence. However, Dina's troubles did not end there - after almost two years, another criminal case has opened another criminal case against activists. Dina herself believes that the reason for him was a coordinated rally against political repressions, which took place on March 15, 2015 on the Marse Field. On it, Dina made a speech against the employees of the E -E Center - by her own admission, not sparing strong expressions. In this speech, investigators discovered “statements aimed at initiating hatred and enmity in relation to social groups for their belonging to representatives of the authorities in the person of the Center for Combating Extreme Extremism of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, containing negative assessments that belittrate human dignity, discrediting professional competence and business reputation of the latter.” Dina Garina did not expect her case to return to the prosecutor's office.

Dina Garina

- On February 1, I went to court and thought that I would be detained. I did not expect that the judge would return the case to the prosecutor's office. Here is such a situation - after all, my judge was different at first, apparently, he merged this case - it is absurd and absurd, falling apart, and no one wants to take it so as not to get into it. After all, even if I have been convicted in the Dzerzhinsky court, then the sentence can be appealed in the city court and in the Supreme. None of the judges want their decisions to be canceled. Judge Sobolev rejected all my petitions - both about video shooting and the transfer of the meeting to another room. There was such an attic with a window to heaven and two benches. The listeners were not allowed - that is, the judge violated the openness and publicity of the meeting. But in general, it was adequate quite adequate - in the sense that she did not continue all this by lawlessness and returned the case to the prosecutor’s office, finding serious formal violations there. And she said that even if there is any corpus delicti, she still does not understand the formulation of the accusation.

I personally did not insult anyone, I just talked about werewolves in uniform

It is not clear what public threat I posed at this rally. It was a rally against political repression and for the abolition of the 282nd article, according to which people are condemned for extremism. I was among the speakers, and when they gave me the word, I expressed my attitude to the employees of the Center for Combating Extremism. I personally did not insult anyone, I just talked about werewolves in uniform. We all know about the Angarsk maniac, who killed 80 people, about colonels of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who steal billions - it was these people that I meant. Well, well, I called someone an earthen worm-and what, now we need to initiate a criminal case? It's just funny. Imagine, these people “worked” on him for two years, someone probably already received stars for shoulder straps. That is, they developed violent activities for two years, and I think that now the case will return to court again, just the judges themselves do not want to deal with them. It is unlikely that this case will fall apart at the investigation stage - after all, it was excited five times and rejected five times. And they perfectly understand that if they justify me, I will reach the Supreme Court, I will demand compensation for material and moral damage for terrorizing me, my family, my loved ones.

- And what was this terror expressed?

- In constant moral pressure. I am now working as a trolleybus driver, they constantly call work, demand to appear somewhere, explain something, send bailiffs, put pressure on loved ones, and in connection with this second criminal case come with searches for my friends. And financially I suffer, lose money - they constantly call me during working hours. I just don't know what to do. The accusation sounds very strange. There were five words in my speech, I said that the employees of the so -called "E" center - "loafers, darmoists, discharges, moral freaks." In general, I expressed the opinion of everyone who encounters the employees of this center. Someone searches for someone, tortured someone, they exerted moral and physical pressure on someone. As a result, I was accused of arousing hatred of the employees of the E -E Center as a social group. That is, they want to recognize all police officers with a social group. But these people came to the Marse field by order of the authorities, receiving a salary for this. What is this social group? This is nonsense, sewn with white threads. Remember, when the work of the art group “War” was the case, then they also tried to recognize the police with a social group, and nothing came of it, the Supreme Court did not recognize the social group. It was the most high-profile case in St. Petersburg, but in fact there were many such precedents, then it did not work out to recognize the police with a social group, and now they want to turn judicial practice throughout the country. That is, my business is very important. But I think they will not succeed.

- Dina, now they want to condemn you for the words, and last time you were condemned conditionally for the text, right?

- It was not just a text, it was a cry of indignation. The gang killed a man, but they didn’t even arise a matter, the killer is still free. And when I served 4 months in a pre -trial detention center and was released, the doctors concluded that the murdered boy died of ischemia. But in fact, they scored him with their feet and hands. It was in a small park near the Elizarovskaya metro station in 2015. His name was Ilya Kudryashov. His friends were frightened by the threats of the FSB and hidden, and I wrote the text, made a revealing speech. This text was blocked, it can no longer read it anywhere.

Dina Garina at a rally

“Dina, how did your activism begin, and when it was?”

There were clashes with guards who attacked the activists with dogs, with guns

- About 7 years ago. Then there was a big noise in the city, the struggle against the demolition of the Literary House on Nevsky, 68, next to the House of Journalists. Then I seriously connected to this struggle, met other activists. We were in winter for days, in minus 25 stood near this house, defended it. Unfortunately, we lost the case in court. And then, as it happens, you continue to communicate with the activists, you come to stocks, you are aware of everything that happens in the city and in the country. We participated in the protection of the city center from Okhta Center, did not allow it to build it. Then there was the defense of the Arakcheev barracks near Smolny.

“But you are not only engaged in urban protection?”

I never went and will not compromise with this illegal power, with it the dialogue is impossible

- The second branch is ecology. There is such a village of Sevastyanovo, there rich people captured a piece of land huge and arranged an entertaining zone for themselves. They arrived there in good cars, shot moose, wild boars, and this is state land. And we came there, sawed at night a fence of 13 kilometers long, it is very dangerous, the guards there are bandits. There and now nothing has moved from the place, the courts have been going on for years. Even in the lakes, they fought against the invaders of the lake of the lake, some oligarchs. We arranged a demonstrative walk there - show that we have the right to take place here, there were skirmishes with guards who attacked the activists with dogs, with guns.

-Actually, there are quite a lot of such activists, but you have large troubles.

- And I never went and I will not compromise with this illegal power, the dialogue is impossible with it. Look, every year we want to coordinate the Russian march in St. Petersburg, submit applications to Smolny, and we are denied each time. What will happen if we go through Nevsky - calmly, without any weapon? But Smolny never agrees anything to Russian nationalists-he sees in this some kind of threat. Now, of course, when I have a conditional term, my hands are connected. But I am going to continue to show an active position, I want to engage in human rights activities.

At the same time, Dina Garina has now left all the organizations in which she consisted. She believes that the time has come when organizations are not relevant - they are haunted by the state, and it is better to act by themselves and through personal, horizontal ties with friends and like -minded people. One of Dina’s defenders is Vitaly Cherkasov, a lawyer from the Agora human rights organization , he has a positive look at the fact that Dina Garina’s case was returned to the prosecutor.

Suddenly, nuclear groups criticized by ecologists and officials began to enter social groups

- Dina spoke in 2015 at the rally, the meaning of her speech was that the opposition was strangled by the hands of the center of the center. And then, after a year and a half, she found out that she had become accused in a criminal case. 4 studies were conducted on it, law enforcement agencies attracted various specialists in the field of political science and linguistics, and eventually decided that Dina’s words contain the excitement of hatred and enmity in relation to the social group - employees of the E -E Center. Naturally, neither Garina nor her lawyers agreed with this position. There is an already established practice that law enforcement officers do not constitute a separate social group, there are several court decisions on this subject. But we have fears that now someone wants to break this practice. After all, investigators knew about her, nevertheless brought the case to court. To our satisfaction, the judge agreed that the case came to her in raw form, that there were serious procedural violations. Moreover, she mentioned that the charged in her understanding was somehow blurry. On this basis, she returned the case to the prosecutor's office. And then there may be several options-either the prosecutor returns the case to the investigator with his instructions, the investigator changes something, corrects and again sends the case to court. And there are times when it is said, as they say, “burying”, surrenders to the archive. We do not exclude any of the options. In March last year, Dina Garina had already received a suspended sentence for the same 282nd article. In principle, the analysts of the Agora, studying the practice of applying this article, conclude that when they just began to pass the sentences on it, they meant good motives. What are really vulnerable social groups - pregnant women, pensioners, people without a specific place of residence - those who cannot protect themselves. There is an article in the Constitution that there should be no discrimination on the signs of race, nationality, religion, sex-apparently, the legislator proceeded from this when it introduces the 282nd article to the Criminal Code. But then, suddenly, nuclear groups criticized by ecologists and officials began to enter into social groups - there is even a court decision when a person was convicted of criticism of the entire power of the Russian Federation, who also fell under the concept of a social group. In each region, this article was interpreted in accordance with the political poet that arose at that moment.

Vitaly Cherkasov believes that it is necessary to make a political decision at a high level-either to completely remove the 282nd article from the Criminal Code, or to adjust it in such a way that it is guarding the rights of really unprotected groups of citizens. As for the case of Dina Garina, a respite is expected here for at least a month, and only then it will become clear whether it will be stopped or sent back to court.