Guilty of terrorism are required

“Revolution of 11/5/17” in St. Petersburg did not take place, but it can turn out to be a real term for activists

The script of the “declared revolution” in St. Petersburg, according to social networks, looked like this: at noon, November 5, protesters, neither more, nor less, they were going to start storming the city administration, and at 16.00 to move to Isaakievskaya Square and capture the Mariinsky Palace.

The police reacted more serious to Maltsev’s calls and his supporters. In St. Petersburg, on the eve of the action, under various pretexts, several dozen oppositionists were detained. On November 5, law enforcement officers surrounded by special equipment approaches to Smolny. The police were on duty in all the surrounding courtyards and lanes.

But the witnesses of unprecedented security measures were only a group of journalists and two dozen “activists” who were dripping on benches in the garden near the administration building.

At 16.00 in the square near Isaacia people gathered a little more - about one and a half hundred. Only the artist Elena Osipova, a permanent participant in the city protests, decided to get into a single picket. Law enforcement officers did not touch the elderly woman, but quickly neutralized the young man in camouflage, who tried to make her company.

In total, during the “revolution”, Smolny and Isaac were detained by 12 people. None of them committed any illegal actions, but had suspicious (according to the police) objects.

Prior to this morning, in one of the courtyards near the Chernyshevskaya metro station, the Suzuki red SUV, belonging to the activist of the Free Ingria movement, Mikhail Voitenkov, parked. Together with him in the car was another “Ingermanlander” Ilyas Minikaev and activist Diana Retinskaya. The Trinity reached on foot to Smolny, and on the way back along Kirochny Street (three kilometers from the point of the selection of “revolutionaries”) was detained by the police.

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The Free Ingria movement advocates the creation of autonomy in the territory within the boundaries of the Leningrad Region. "Ingermanlanders" attribute themselves to a small nationality that once lived on the lands conquered by Peter I. In May 2016, the SK opened a criminal case against the administrator of one of the thematic groups of Artem Chebotarev. Twice under the threat of criminal prosecution was another “Ingermanlander” - Grigory Solonymsky. And on July 2017, the Free Ingria website was included in the register of prohibited resources.

According to the detainees, already in the 78th police department, they learned that in the SUV cabin, a Nagan with cartridges, RGD grenades and bottles with incendiary mixture (Molotov cocktail) were allegedly found.

In the evening, information appeared in the media that the detainees may apply article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“terrorism”). The minimum punishment is 10 years of prison.

The lawyer Diana Retinskaya Maxim Kamakin, in a conversation with the “New” confirmed that a criminal case was instituted against his client under two articles: part 1 of Art. 35 of the Criminal Code (crime committed by a group of persons) and part 1 of Art. 222 of the Criminal Code (illegal storage of weapons).

Activists of “free Ingria” call their movement “an informal cultural and public association” or “movement of practicing local historians”. And they emphasize: they have no official leaders and any organizational structure. As well as plans to capture Russia.

“The whole essence of the parties is participation in all initiatives, when it meets our cultural interests,” says Svetlana Gavrilin, one of the supporters of the movement, explains “new”. “Everything that interests people is the region and its economic prosperity.” And without politics, where? We participate in promotions and pickets. But Maltsev is definitely not the hero of our novel. ”

For the arrested Mikhail Voitenkov, the deputy of the Zaks Boris Vishnevsky entrusted.

“Misha has known for several years as a permanent participant in protest rallies,” he wrote on Facebook. - The fact that he could store weapons is not believed, I believe that he was thrown and organized a provocation. ”

As for Diana Retinskaya, the “Ingermanlanders” are known about her. The 48-year-old woman became interested in the events of Free Ingria only a few months ago. Prior to this, she took part in many protests in the northern capital. The coordinator of the St. Petersburg Open Russia Andrei Pivovarov confirmed to the “new” that previously Retinskaya was an activist of this organization.

Seraphim Romanov, "New in St. Petersburg"

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On the afternoon of November 7, the detainees of Voitenkov, Retinskaya and Minikaev were released on a subscription about the loss of the departure directly from the special receiver.