"Your elections are farce!" From the history of Article 141 of the Criminal Code (obstruction of the work of election commissions)

The Investigative Committee is investigating the case of obstructing the work of election commissions (Article 141 of the Criminal Code) due to protests near “buildings and premises of the Moscow City Warrics”. Alexander Borodikhin recalls how, in 2007, three National Bolshes were judged by this exotic article in the Moscow Region.

Elections-Fars

“Neither prison nor bullets will stop us,” the text on leaflets began and ended with such words, which on March 11, 2007 scattered at the polling station No. 1 763 in Odintsovo, activists of the National-Bolshevik party. Two of them will subsequently condemn and receive conventional terms, the third - the leader of the National National Budgetary Institution of the National Economic Development of Yuri Chervochkin will not live up to the sentence: it will be killed, and the action itself will become one of the formal reasons for the ban on the NBP as an extremist organization.

“The voters who entering the building of the Odintsovo City House sniff - there is still a chemical smell in the air,” the Odintsovo.info correspondent, which illuminated the elections of deputies of the Moscow Regional Duma on that day. The “chemical” smell remained from the smoke torches, which the National Bolsheviks Yuri Chervochkin, Sergey Klimov and Vladimir Sidorin lit with the shouts of “Your Elections - Fars!”.

Simultaneously with the comrades from the Moscow Region, leaflets with the same appeal were scattered into the smoke of the fires of the National Bolsheviks from Samara and Petrozavodsk; Everywhere activists overturned the ballot boxes. In the leaflets it was written that the Ministry of Justice has already refused to register the NBP as a party under “outrageous and ridiculous” prepositions.

“We demand: 1. Participation of the NBP in the elections to the State Duma in 2007. 2. Participation in the elections to the State Duma of all Russian political parties, forcibly deprived of this right by the Ministry of Justice and the CEC along the Kremlin’s direction. The elections without the participation of the NBP and other political parties that do not want to repent to the Kremlin authorities are considered illegitimate. We refuse to recognize their results, ”the National Bolsheviks declared.

In Odintsovo, the protesters launched flags with a sickle and a hammer and tried to overturn the urn, but met the resistance of security and police officers. The National Bolshes was twisted: the photographs show how men in the form grab Chervochkin's neck, and he, resisting, falls to the floor at the glass doors of the hall filled with red smoke.

Together with three detainees, the Kommersant, Reuters and RIA Novosti, who removed the action, were also taken to the police department. The policemen emphasized that the journalists “went themselves” to the department, and they were “only asked” to testify.

Already after the action, when the ballots were calculated, it turned out that the United Russia won the election with an insignificant advantage: the Communist Party, which showed its best result in the Odintsovo district, did not have three dozens of votes to win. However, the violations were also reported: after the National Bolsheviks of the National Economic Development, “tables with voter lists were carried out into the corridor, a crowd gathered, uncontrolled issuance of ballots began, observers were physically unable to break into the tables and exercise control.”

“The buffet works, music plays, voters continue to vote. The provocation did not affect the turnout, ”the correspondent of Odintsovo.info ended his report, noting that Mosoblspas specialists were brought to the site to take air samples.

“Elections in the Russian Federation are reduced to the level of an evil performance staged in the camp for barbed wire and under the muzzles of various“ law enforcement officers, ”the NBP statement said in the action. - As long as the NBP Fire Party (and other opposition organizations) is listed in ballots, your elections are and will be an evil farce. There is no crime in the fact that the National Bolsheviks told the truth about your criminal elections. We are not slaves, slaves are you. Slaves and criminals. "

Homeland, death

The next day, the Moscow Region prosecutor's office announced the initiation of a criminal case on the obstruction of the election commission, committed by a group of people by prior conspiracy (paragraph “c” of part 2 of Article 141 of the Criminal Code).

In 2018, a criminal case was opened in Pskov under part 1 of Article 141 of the Criminal Code due to leaflets of the local branch of Yabloko with an appeal to spoil the ballots in the governor's elections. The party’s office was searched. A year later, the case was terminated for the lack of corpus delicti.

The department reported that “three not working young people from 18 to 23 years old” at a quarter of the eleventh in the morning performed “illegal actions” at the polling station: they launched the NBP flags, scattered leaflets and set fire to four smoke bombs. “In order to disrupt the process of voting, the offenders tried to turn the urn with the ballots, and one of them made an attempt to challenes themselves to the battery,” the prosecutor’s release said.

The Odintsovo District Court sent Chervochkin, Sidorin and Klimov under arrest for two months, but soon they left the pre -trial detention center. “They were all detained, and they were in custody for a month, and then the [Moscow] Regional Court satisfied my complaints, and they were all released, and without a preventive measure,” the lawyer Olga Mikhailova, who represented the interests of Sidorin, told Mediazone. “And then the investigator chose them all to them.” Personal guarantees to the court, who considered the arrest of the National Bolsheviks, was sent by human rights activist Lyudmila Alekseev, politicians Vladimir Ryzhkov and Harry Kasparov.

“There was a sea of ​​violations that I found, and the [Moscow] regional court satisfied all this and released them,” recalls Mikhailov. “Maybe it would be better not to let go, then Chervochkin would have survived.”

The National Bolsheviks died six months later. On November 22, 2007, a 22-year-old activist was discovered in his native Serpukhov with traces of cruel beating baseball bats. On December 10, Chervochkin died in the hospital, without regaining consciousness. Before his death, he told his comrades about surveillance and threats by the operatives, and investigator Oleg Tselipotkin, who investigated his death, was inclined to the version of the involvement of the policemen in the attack.

Mikhailova recalls: the operational support in the case of the campaign in the polling station in Odintsovo was carried out by the operative of the Moscow Region Naivery and Naughty Republic of Moscow Region, Alexei Okopny, who will later become one of the most recognizable employees of the E -E Center and whom the associates of Chervochkin were repeatedly accused of murder more than once.

When the prosecutor in court proposed terminating the case against the deceased National Bolsheviks in connection with his death, the rest of the accused opposed, "since the political matter." Vladimir Sidorin and Sergey Klimov insisted on the posthumous justification of the comrade, arguing that the protesting cannot be considered as disruption of voting or interference in the electoral process.

A year later, the state prosecutor requested for them two and a half years of the colony. “The actions of Sidorin and Klimov are latent in an extremist nature, and in fact, the current president Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, and Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, have repeatedly indicated from our position,” the prosecutor was repeatedly indicated in our country.

The court appointed the National Bolsheviks the same two and a half years - but conditionally; The prosecutor’s report on the verdict emphasized that “the illegal actions of young people were suspended and resumed in the room only two hours later.”

The leader of the NBP Eduard Limonov then said that “glad to this sentence as a person”: “It is good that the guys will not go to jail, but I still think that this is an excessive punishment. So I have a strange position. According to cannibalist standards, this is a good sentence, and according to universal, it is scary. The guys did nothing criminally punished, they simply entered the polling station and said what they were thinking. ”

March 15, 2007-four days after the campaign at the polling station-the Odintsovo City Prosecutor's Office issued the National-Bolshevik Party “Warning about the inadmissibility of extremist activity” in connection with “extremist actions”. This warning and two more - from Chelyabinsk and St. Petersburg - have become the reason for recognizing NBP to an extremist organization and the ban on its activities in Russia.

The decision of the Moscow City Court on the ban on the organization says : “The arguments of Savenko E.V. (Eduard Limonov-MZ) that the activities of the NBP cannot be recognized as extremist in the facts set forth in the warnings of the prosecutor's offices of St. Petersburg and the city of Odintsovo, the Moscow Region, since in relation to persons brought to criminal liability, there is no accusatory sentence that has entered into legal force, since the current legislation does not connect the grounds for banning activities a public organization containing signs of extremism, with the mandatory presence of signs of a criminal offense in such actions. ”

After the ban on the NBP, its activists throughout the country began to be persecuted under Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization). Three years later, supporters of Eduard Limonov established a new party “Another Russia”, but it has not been able to register it in the Ministry of Justice so far.

A week after the verdict, Sergei Klimov was again detained - this time on the day of his own wedding, which National Bolsheviks decided to play on the anniversary of the victory of Alexander Nevsky’s detachments over the Teutonic Knights on Lake Peipsi (Eduard Limonov proposed to celebrate this date). On the afternoon of April 7, 2008, a procession of four dozen people with flowers in their hands moved along Red Square, who began to chant “bitterly!”, While Klimov kissed his bride Ksenia Firsova. Then the events accepted the more traditional turnover for the shares of the NBP: the banner "Freedom to the Politzams!" In the frontal place, pink bends, leaflets and detention.

According to the activist of the unregistered party "Other Russia" Olga Shalina, now Sergey Klimov and Vladimir Sidorin do not participate in the activities of the organization.