The leader of the “Russian Astrakhan” Igor Stenin left Russia

The leader of the "Russian Astrakhan" Igor Stenin, together with his wife and son, left Russia due to incoming threats, the reports . "Caucasian Knot"

“So that the security forces could not put pressure on my family, we decided to leave together, especially since there were already threats. Summons to investigators also come to us regularly,” Stenin said.

Earlier, the prosecutor's office appealed against the decision of the Presidium of the Astrakhan Regional Court to cancel Stenin's sentence for inciting extremism. The case was returned back to the Astrakhan Regional Court, and the activist was ordered not to leave.

In May 2016, Stenin was sentenced to two years in a penal colony for inciting extremism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to investigators, the man made a repost of an article on VKontakte from the list of extremist materials and wrote a comment about the destruction of the “Kremlin occupiers” with the demand to “take your hands off Ukraine.”

The human rights center "Memorial" recognized Stenin as a political prisoner.