Red combustible

In Yekaterinburg, after an attack on the monument to the first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin was detained by an activist of "another Russia" Igor Schuk. This was reported in his blog by a member of the party’s executive committee Alexander Averin.

"On the anniversary of the century of the revolution in Yekaterinburg, unknown people similar to the National Bolsheviks held an action near the walls of the Yeltsin Center. Unknown doused the monument to the ex-president of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin, located at the entrance to the center and set it on fire,-Averin wrote.-April 23, on the day of the death of Boris Yeltsin, the party activists. Russia "hung a banner" Yeltsin, Gori in hell! "On the Yeltsin Center building. The National Bolsheviks demanded the exhumation of the body of Boris Yeltsin. In the Russian land there is no place for the monster who destroyed the country and robbed the whole generation of our citizens."

Averin later announced the detention of pike. “The 214th article of the Criminal Code (vandalism) is going to apply against him,” Averin wrote on Twitter.

According to the "faces" of eyewitnesses of the incident, another Russians approached the monument by about 10 meters, took a certain item from the package, perhaps a bottle of incendiary mixture, set fire and threw it. Then the activist tried to run away from the guards. The monument itself was not injured, the traces of the fire remained only on the pedestal.

The head of the press service of the regional headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Valery Gorelykh confirmed that the case was opened in part 2 of Article 214 (vandalism based on political hatred, up to three years in prison). "From the scene, the investigative -operational group of police seized a number of material evidence, including fragments of fragments of a broken bottle in which there was an igniting substance," Gorelykh noted. The suspect is in custody.

The press service of the Yeltsin Center reported that the attack occurred at 5:20 (3:20 Moscow time). "The man, who was in the immediate vicinity of the monument to the first president, set fire to the contents of the package that was in his hands. The guard of the Yeltsin Center promptly stopped unlawful actions. Subsequently, the crew of the police officer No. 14 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Yekaterinburg detained a man who committed a dormant," the press release said.

Pike 30 years old, he is a native and citizen of Belarus. In September 2009, together with a colleague in the NBP, Tatyana Kharlamova was convicted in Khabarovsk by 10 months of the colony for a year of direct action against the transfer of three Russian islands on the Amur in this city earlier. The National Bolsheviks was announced guilty under Part 1 of Article 282 (arousal of hatred or enmity), part 2 of Article 282.2 (participation in the activities of the extremist community) and Article 319 of the Criminal Code (insulting a representative of power).

In the spring of 2014, the pike participated in the capture of Crimea, and then went to the Donbass. In May of the same year, the other year, who then lived in the Belenkoy town, suburb of Kramatorsk, called himself in an interview with Radieo Svaboda by a field commander and claimed to be subordinate to armed militants. Among other things, the pike stated: "We (Gorotorses. - Ed.) Went to Simferopol and helped so -called polite people there. Then we went to Donetsk, they stormed the OGA, the SBU. After some government was formed there, we went to Kramatorsk."

At the same time, in "another Russia" they claimed that the pike in the Donbass "was illuminated by events as a blogger."

In the fall of 2014, it became known that the case was open against pike in Belarus for his participation in the war in Ukraine.

After returning to Russia, the Lemonian continued to participate in the shares of his party .

On the night of August 24, 2012, unknown people doused the monument to Yeltsin with paint , and also shot down several letters on the pedestal. The municipal services of the city could not wash the sculpture. The paint turned out to be stamp, one of the most persistent. She penetrated the marble deeply, although it was covered with a protective substance. Further work on cleaning the monument was carried out by the Yeltsin Center, the owner of the monument, spending 2.4 million rubles on it.

The police announced a reward for information about vandals. At first, the regional head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that the monument was defiled by the former National Bolshes . However, then this message was not confirmed. In mid -September 2012, the head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the city, Igor Trifonov, said that the employees of the Yekaterinburg police determined the circle of people who may be involved in the desecration of the monument. Trifonov refused to report the details, referring to the secret of the investigation. Later, there were no reports on the progress of the investigation.

The monument was solemnly opened on February 1, 2011-on the 80th anniversary of the birth of the first president. Yeltsin held this position from June 12, 1991 to December 31, 1999.