"Are you comfortable in the aquarium?"

The Moscow City Court extended the arrests to the defendants of the “New Greatness” case for another three months

The process of the process

Court: Moscow City Court

The defendants: Ruslan Kostylenkov, Dmitry Poletaev, Peter Karamzin, Vyacheslav Kryukov, Anna Pavlikova, Maria Dubovik, Maxim Roshchin and Sergey Gavrilov

Article: 282.1 of the Criminal Code ("Creation and participation in the extremist community")

Stage: Familiarization with the case materials

Threats: from six to ten years in prison

On March 11, one of the corridors of the Mosgorsud of the Court was filled with relatives and a group of supporting the defendants in the case of “New Greatness”. The activists who came - the regulars of the trials, the bailiffs know them in the face and greet them.

Almost simultaneously, Anna Pavlikova, Maria Dubovik, Maxim Roshchin and Sergey Gavrilov approached the hall - they are all under house arrest. The hearing lingered for an hour - they waited for Ruslan Kostylenkov, Dmitry Poles, Peter Karamzin and Vyacheslav Kryukov from the pre -trial detention center.

At the meeting, there was no Rustam Rustamov and Pavel Rebrovsky. Last week, the Sergiev Posad City Court of the Moscow Region sentenced Rustamov to 1.5 years conditionally. The court considered the case in a special order, since the accused pleaded guilty of “aiding participating in the activities of the extremist community” and concluded a pre -trial agreement. And Rebrovsky is in a stationary psychiatric examination.

According to the case file, a person under the nickname "Ruslan D." He invited young people to create a political movement, wrote the charter of the movement, developed a program and rented a premises for meetings. In the case, he passes as a key witness. Protection insists: "Ruslan D." He was an informant, and possibly an agent of special services.

The meeting in the Moscow City Court began with the petition of the lawyer Kostylenkov Svetlana Sidorkina. She asked the court to allow the accused who are in the Aquarium to sit next to her defenders. “The conditions for the detention of the accused in the cell are torture. The ECHR has announced this more than once. And now in court the camera is small and cramped for four people, ”the lawyer noted.

- How comfortable are you, sorry, I ask? - Judge Elena Pospelova asked the Aquarium.

“It’s cramped, but you decide,” Kostylenkov answered.

The judge suggested going to another hall, where the “aquariums” are “more spacious”. But this proposal did not satisfy the lawyers. As a result, the judge rejected the request of Sidorkina, explaining that this was not an iron cage and the rights of prisoners were not violated.

The investigator has not changed: the defendants in the case are accused of a “serious crime” and there are no grounds for changing preventive measures. When asked by the judge, why the preliminary investigation was so tightened and what was done in a year and a half, the investigator reported in memorization: the criminal case consists of 26 volumes, all witnesses were interrogated, 27 examinations were conducted. As a result, the investigator asked for additional time to transfer the case to the prosecutor's office.

Lawyers asked to mitigate the involved a preventive measure, because the preliminary investigation was completed. "Why keep young people in jail and under house arrest?" - relatives were perplexed.

Copies of the death certificates of both parents of Kostylenkov, as well as medical certificates of health status, Ani Pavlikova, on the basis of which house arrest could be replaced with a recognizance not to leave, were attached to the case. Pavlikova’s father Dmitry repeated that the daughter needed a constant observation of doctors. “Her condition is aggravated. If it is possible to apply a non -departure subscription, this will not interfere with the case, but will indicate the humanity of the court, ”he said.

Masha Dubovik asked her to be given the opportunity to start training at the university and pass the exam. Her lawyer Karinna Moskalenko noted that the client justified confidence while under house arrest. “I also ask you to give this girl the opportunity to study. She is losing time! It is possible to choose a preventive measure not so serious and allowing you to attend studies, ”Moskalenko tried to convince. - Let me remind you that all the defendants are yesterday's children. The main function of justice is not in punishment, but in compliance with the rule of law and in education. ”

She was supported by the lawyers of the defendants imprisoned in the pre -trial detention center. They insisted on the release of their customers on a subscription about a lower -off wizard or, at least, a transfer to house arrest. The defenders pointed out the slowness of the investigation and noted that the adoption in August of last year, the decision to transfer from the pre -trial detention center under house arrest Pavlikova and Dubovik did not violate the work of the investigator.

The under investigation Karamzin added in turn: all the time that he is in jail, he had no evil intent to influence the investigation of other persons. “On the contrary, he is interested in the case to be investigated and a fair sentence,” the young man concluded.

The judge Pospelova printed the decision for more than an hour. Having entered the hall, she read out on the machine: the investigator’s petition is “motivated and reasonable”, “a different measure of restraint is impossible”, the defense arguments are “not convincing”, the accused, being free, “can prevent proceedings”. Pavlikov, Dubovik, Roshchin and Gavrilov remain under house arrest until June 13. Kostylenkov, Poletaev, Karamzin and Kryukov - in a pre -trial detention center, also until June 13. During the announcement of Pavlikova’s decision, it became bad, her hands were shaking, she struggled with difficulty, her father immediately approached her and hugged. Nearby stood the relatives of the other accused. Having lowered their heads, they cried softly.