Both one and a half

The collegium of the Volga District Military Court (Samara) as part of Alexander Lednev (chairman), Ruslan Podstkov and Andrei Balandin sentenced the retired Colonel GRU Vladimir Kvachkov to one and a half years of strict regime. This is reported by Interfax.

The eight -year term served by Kvachkov in the previous case expired in December 2018. Now, by partial addition of sentences, the release period is pushed back by almost seven months - until August 2019. In addition, a year of restriction of freedom after leaving the colony has been appointed Politzek.

Kvachkov was declared guilty under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (excitement of hatred or enmity). Initially, he was charged with part 1 of Article 205.2 (public calls for terrorism), but on August 4 in the debate the prosecutor asked to re -qualify the case . For the defendant, the prosecutor demanded three years in the colony. Whether the total term is appointed by complete or partial addition of sentences, he left the judges at the discretion.

Defenders declared Kvachkov’s innocence and demanded an acquittal. In particular, lawyer Sergei Orlov noted that the political prisoner did not give instructions to publish a video message on the Internet, which became the reason for initiating a third case.

The colonel himself did not plead guilty.

Kvachkov became known about the third case in March 2016. The investigation led UFSB in Mordovia. The reason for the initiation of the case was the publication on YouTube Video Back of Kvachkov, recorded on a mobile phone in June 2015 in the IK-5 of a strict regime for former security forces in the village of Lepley of the Zubovo-Polyansky district of Mordovia. As reported, another prisoner of the colony sent the file to the supporters of Kvachkov by mail, and they published a video on the Internet called "Kvachkov in IK-5, Mordovia." According to the "faces", we are talking about a video also known as "Comments of Colonel Kvachkov on the situation of Russian nationalists in prisons."

Who exactly placed the file, the FSB did not find out. Whether the IK-5 prisoner was established and prosecuted, who, according to the plot of the case, sent the video to the supporters of Kvachkov, was not reported.

The accusation stated that "in his video message, Kvachkov publicly calls on an indefinite circle of persons to commit forced seizure of state power in the Russian Federation, that is, to carry out terrorist activities."

The hearing in the case continued on December 14, 2016.

On January 20, 2017, experts involved in Kvachkov’s lawyers performed in the process - political scientists Stepan Sulakshin and Andrei Savelyev. Sulakshin is a former general director of the Center for Problem Analysis and Public Management Design. He was fired in April 2013 after the publication of a report on falsifications in the 2011 elections to the State Duma. Saveliev is the leader of the Great Russia party. In 2003-2007, he was a deputy of the State Duma; He was in the Rodina fraction.

Both experts watched a video message charged with Kvachkov, and there were no calls to terrorism in it.

After that, the judges stated that a psychological linguistic study of the record conducted at the request of the investigation of the Mordovian laboratory of forensic examinations is incomplete, and a new study was appointed at the Russian Federal Center for forensic examination under the Ministry of Justice. Before obtaining the results of the study,the trial was suspended .

The hearings resumed on July 10. As reported by another Politsek lawyer Andrei Vikanov, a repeated examination did not see a quachkov calls for terrorism in the video message. As we might assume, it was the results of a new study that became the reason that the prosecutor asked for retraining of the case.

In the second case, Kvachkov was detained in December 2010, the next day after a complete excuse in the case of the attempt on the oligarch Anatoly Chubais. In 2013, the retired colonel was announced guilty under Part 1 of Article 30 - Article 279 of the Criminal Code (preparation of armed rebellion). It was claimed that activists of the Kvachov "People's Militia named after Minin and Pozharsky" planned to seize power in the city of Kovrov, Vladimir Region, and from there to move to Moscow. Politzek himself said that he was preparing partisans in case of war with a foreign aggressor. At the same time, in court, he defended the right to an uprising.

Kvachkov is 69 years old, and he suffers from cancer. Meanwhile, in the Mordovian IK-5 on the Politzeck regularly imposed on far-fetched reasons. He was repeatedly placed in a schizo, then transferred to Belaruson (a detachment of strict conditions for serving a sentence), and in August 2015 he was sent to the PCT (a chamber -type premises - an internal prison of a colony). At the time of participation in court, Kvachkov was transferred to Samara SIZO-1.