The court arrested in absentia the leader of the Pan-Slavic National Volunteer Association, who joined the Right Sector.

In Russia, a court arrested in absentia the leader of the Pan-Slavic National Volunteer Association" and the leader of the organization "White Cross" Oleksandr Valov, who joined the "Right Sector". organizations.

In December 2017, the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation issued a decision to bring Alexander Valov as a defendant under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization). A measure of restraint in the form of detention was chosen against him in absentia.

According to the case file, Valov left Russia no later than 2014 and went to Ukraine, where he joined the Right Sector. He participated in the activities of the organization, filmed and photographed them, disseminated information about it on the Internet, "thus promoting extremist activity." According to the investigation, Valov takes part in the fighting in the south-east of Ukraine as part of the Azov battalion for a monetary reward. In this regard, his actions will be additionally qualified under the article of the Criminal Code on mercenarism.

Valov was the founder of the White Cross organization in Russia, which was recognized as extremist in June 2015 (clause 43 of the Federal List of Extremist Organizations). In September 2014, Valov fled to Ukraine because of an excited against him and other members of the "White Cross" criminal case on the fact attacks on a native of Uzbekistan. In 2014, Valov was put on the international wanted list by Interpol. Together with Valov, Igor Chudinov, Gennady Khamraev, Georgy Stotsky and Roman are involved in the case. Strigunkov. Chudinov (named deputy head of the Right Sector division), Stotsky and Right Sector press secretary Artem Skoropadsky also arrested in absentia and put on the international wanted list. They are charged under Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organizing the activities of an extremist organization). Stotsky is charged under Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in an extremist organization).

Valov also headed the ultra-right association "Pan-Slavic National Volunteer Association", "Kosovo Front - Murmansk", was in the leadership of the regional branch of the "New Force" party, organized "Russian Marches" in Murmansk. In 2009, Valov was tried under Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred ) for who drew swastikas on the building of a vocational school in the city of Polyarnye Zori, Murmansk region.

Sources

• A citizen of Russia who joined the ranks of the banned organization "Right Sector" was arrested in absentia // Official website of the RF IC. 2017. December 4th.