Moscow: after a search, the leader of the Black Bloc movement, Vladimir Ratnikov, was detained

On June 26, 2018, at 6 am, Vladimir Ratnikov, leader of the ultra-right Black Bloc movement, was detained in Moscow. The nationalist's apartment was searched, presumably in connection with a certain case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code and art. 280 of the Criminal Code.

On June 26, 2018, in Moscow, law enforcement officers came to the leader of the National Socialist movement "Black Bloc" Vladimir Ratnikov (Komarnitsky) with a search.

Pavel Lebedyansky, an activist of the National Revolutionary Vanguard, announced this on his page on the VKontakte network. According to him, " at 6 am the special forces broke down the door " to Ratnikov's apartment, after which a search was carried out. During the search, law enforcement officers seized a desktop computer, telephone, tablet, flash cards, leaflets, clothes and manuscripts, and Ratnikov himself was detained and taken away in an unknown direction (later it became known that he was taken to the building of the Investigative Committee).

According to members of the nationalist's family, the search was carried out as part of a case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred) and Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism). Details are unknown.

Recall that today's detention is not the first time that Ratnikov has attracted the attention of law enforcement agencies. In March 2018, the nationalist was sentenced to 160 hours of compulsory labor for posting neo-Nazi songs on the VKontakte network. In addition, he was repeatedly detained at or before various Moscow public actions, for example, on the march in memory of Boris Nemtsov on February 25, in front of action "He is not our tsar" on May 5, at the "For Free Internet" rally on May 13, etc. Alexei Navalny's

Before becoming the head of the Black Bloc movement, Ratnikov headed one of the fragments of the far-right organization RFO Memory, and was also a member of Vladimir Basmanov's nationalist movement, the Nation and Freedom Committee.   Sources

• In Moscow, after the search, the leader of the Black Bloc movement Vladimir Ratnikov was detained // Mediazone. 2018. June 26.
• Based on materials from right-wing radical sites.
• Leader of nationalist Black Bloc detained after search in Moscow // OVD-info. 2018. June 26.