
In Moscow and the Moscow Region, from the early morning, employees of the Department for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, with the support of the FSB officers, conducted more than 20 searches related to the detentions of artillery activists. This was reported by RBC with links to sources in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
“The detainees on the eve of the movement began to testify, new names and addresses appeared in the case,” the agency’s source in the Center said.
“At some addresses, extremist literature, clothing with nationalist symbols were removed,” another source noted. In addition, electronic media were seized from the detainees, the information from which, according to the agency’s source, replenished the evidence base.
In particular, according to the correspondent of the "faces", one of the dormitories of Moscow near the VDNH metro station was detained by artillery activists from Yekaterinburg Rafail Shepelev, Viktor Baldin, Sergey Chudov, Alexander Titov, Alexander Podannikov, Vladimir Mokhlachev, as well as Oksana Volobuev from Tyumen. They have taken the symbolism of the organization. The detainees were delivered to the OP "Bogorodsky".
In Barnaul, searches were held with witnesses in the criminal case against the activist of the "artillery" Leo Vesnin. After the search, he himself was taken to the police department. Former lawyer of Navalny’s headquarters Tatyana Babich came to provide spring assistance to spring, but she was not allowed to be client due to the lack of status of a lawyer. According to what article Lev Vesnin is accused, Babich does not know. The investigator told her that now there are a lot of people, a lot of people. " According to Babich, during the searches of witnesses in this criminal case, police seize walkie -talkies and even hunting uniforms.
In the afternoon, a participant in the St. Petersburg Assistance Group for the detainees Mikhail Lebedev said that the activists of the Arthotovka, who left St. Petersburg to Moscow in a car, disappeared on the M10 highway. They were stopped several times at the DPS posts, and then released. After the next post, the activists stopped in touch.
Searches and detentions took place in other cities.
Vyacheslav Maltsev announced the leader of the “artillery” on November 5 this day of the revolution in Russia and called on his supporters to prepare for it. Last week, the organization was declared extremist . The persecution of artillery activists, deployed several months ago, was sharply activated on November 5. On Friday, the FSB announced the suppression of the artillery cells "Artillery" in Moscow, Krasnoyarsk, Krasnodar, Kazan, Samara and Saratov. Sources of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that 14 people were detained in different cities.
On Friday, Judge Frunze District Court Saratov Svetlana Gogoleva arrested for two months the activist of Artillery Podbodovka Sergey Ryzhov on suspicion of preparing the terrorist attack. At a court session, the FSB representative said that, according to investigators, Ryzhov planned to commit an attack on November 4 and 5, for which he allegedly searched for accomplices among the activists of the Artillery Podge. In addition, Ryzhov was called the leader of the unregistered party "Free People", which allegedly planned to seize the government of the Saratov region, theatrical square and post office in early November.
On Friday, the Railway Court of Krasnoyarsk for two months arrested activist Alexander Zaitsev, suspected of part 1.1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code (declension to organize riots). According to investigators, Zaitsev sent the artillery to Roman Maryan and Peter Isaev to take part in the Armed Uprising on 11/05/2017 in Moscow. Then Zaitsev actively helped Maryan and Isaev plan a departure to Moscow and "warned of conspiracy measures." The police detained activists when they got on a train at Achinsk station. On Wednesday, the court arrested Maryana . The whereabouts of 18-year-old Isaev is still not known.
On October 27, two activists of the movement - Yuri Korny and Andrei Kepty - were arrested on suspicion of terrorism . According to the plot of the case, the oppositions intended to set fire to the pallets with hay on the Manezhnaya Square of Moscow, which remained after the festival "Our product" on the Manezhnaya Square of Moscow.