Lawyer Karinna Moskalenko will join the case of “New Greatness” defendant Maria Dubovik

Lawyer and head of the Center for International Protection Karinna Moskalenko agreed to take part in the defense of Maria Dubovik, accused of participating in the organization “New Greatness”.

Lawyers Maxim Pashkov and Tatyana Okushko remain in the case.

19-year-old Maria Dubovik was detained on March 15 and arrested the next day. In July it became known that she was transferred from a 30-bed cell in pre-trial detention center No. 6 to a four-bed cell. Okushko also reported that during her arrest, her client’s vision deteriorated significantly.

• In the case of New Greatness, an organization created, judging by the case materials, by infiltrated employees, there are ten defendants. Six of them are in pre-trial detention center, four are under house arrest.
• All ten people are accused of organizing the activities of an extremist community (Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). Moreover, the accusation is based on the testimony of three men who were not arrested. One of them said that he was introduced into the group on assignment. The interrogation protocols of these people were almost completely removed from the case materials. One of the three wrote the organization's charter, collected money, and rented meeting rooms. None of them were arrested.
• Anna Pavlikova, who was not yet 18 years old at the time of her arrest, was threatened with violence . On July 31, it became known that the Honored Lawyer of Russia, a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Henry Reznik, had agreed to defend her.
• Ruslan Kostylenkov, whom investigators call the leader of the “New Greatness” organization, told POC member Evgeniy Enikeev that he was beaten during a search. His lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina also reported to OVD-Info about Kostylenkov’s beating.