"You are fighting air." The case of justification of terrorism in Karelia

Most of the criminal cases instituted under the article “Execution of terrorism” after the explosion in the Arkhangelsk building of the FSB on October 31, 2018 have not yet reached court. The state punishes the suspects in another way - bringing their surnames to the list of existing terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring. Among such "terrorists" is a young mother from the city of Medvezhyegorsk in Karelia Ekaterina Muranova. Without money and without work, she is locked in her town and awaits the court for a short comment on VKontakte.

Medvezhyegorsk, where Ekaterina Muranova lives, is a small district center in Karelia, only 14 thousand inhabitants. When on March 20 to the house to Katin’s parents, where she then lived with her little son, at six in the morning, the guys came in masks, "journalists did not gather at the entrance. The whole terrible day Katya was alone.

“They came, brazenly broke into the house, began to search everything,” she recalls. - They say: "Do you have prohibited literature? Do you have explosive devices?" I say: "No. Guys, see what you want, but I have nothing illegal." Everything is only in my head, my thoughts were with me.

"A radical person. Little boy"

Katya is an anarchist. “I am interested in this topic from school,” she says. Katya is 27 years old, with the exception of her grandmother, all her ancestors are indigenous Karelians. She was born in Medvezhyegorsk and lives here almost all her life, with a break to study in St. Petersburg. Then Muranova was fond of anarchism seriously - together with friends they handed out leaflets, wrote on the walls of graffiti. Returning to the city (the locals call it Medgori - abbreviated from the Bear Mountain located there) with a little son, continued to read books and communicate with like -minded chats, but nothing more.

He seemed to leave a suicide note. He didn’t even say anything to his parents

On the morning of November 1, someone told her: "Misha blew himself up." Mikhail Zhlobitsky, 17-year-old anarchist , on October 31, at the entrance to the FSB Office in the Arkhangelsk Region, led a home-made explosive device and died. He explained his act in the anarchist chat: “The FSB is fabricating things and tortures people ...” This crime-self-cap caused a whole shaft of responses and comments , and later a number of criminal cases were filtered under Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation-an excuse for terrorism. Most of them are for comments on social networks, mine - for the author’s column . ( Against the author of this material, Svetlana Prokopieva opened a criminal case under the same Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. - RS ).

“I was in absolute shock from the suicide of Misha,” Muranova recalls. - I went to Telegram, our common chat - and I see from it a message that an explosion will happen in Arkhangelsk. He seemed to leave a suicide note. He didn’t even say anything to his parents.

They met Misha in one of the anarchist chats, began to communicate in Telegram - a "pleasant young man." Katya says that she always scolded him for radical glances: “I told him:“ Misha, it’s so bad - you are too radical a person. ”It was a typical teenage emotion, she said: she said:

-He had such thoughts: "Guys, we have to go, we need to do something. We can’t just sit and look at all this." That is, a radical person. Little boy.

Shortly after the explosion, one of the anarchist communities in VKontakte opened the wall of the memory of Zhlobitsky. One of the messages there was left by Ekaterina Muranova.

- I wrote that this person is a hero for me. Not in the sense that well done, he is all perfect, no, but he gave his life for his ideas, ”Katya explains. - In general, now there are few such people in the world. And I wrote it all. And then, four months later, the guys came to me in masks. They showed me a piece of paper, screenshots. And they said: "You are accused of justifying terrorism."

"They write something on you on the Internet"

If you were a man, they would talk to you differently

The searches showed the certificates of the Center "E" and brought witnesses. They turned the whole house upside down, scaring Katya's parents and six -year -old Vanya. All electronic devices were taken-tablets, phones-and for some reason another contract for connecting the Internet. Three hours later they took Catherine with them, to the local FSB, for interrogation. When she refused to sign the recognition, got angry.

“They kept me for four hours in a closed office.” That is, no one came to me. I sat there alone. I was not given either to drink, nor go out, nor to enter - nothing at all. They say: "If you want to get - n and sai in pants." Then the operas came up to me and said: “If you were a man, they would talk to you differently,” says Katya. - They escaped the atmosphere to such an extent that I even burst into tears.

She was released home only late in the evening.

Parents now do not understand me, and my friends turned away from me

- And my parents have such ... people of old hardening. They told me: "You write ... it's all from the evil one." They reacted to this, as if I was to blame for something, ”Catherine sighs. - And my parents now do not understand me, and my friends turned away from me. They say: "What do you get there for garbage? Why are you doing this?"

Parents did not want to live under the same roof with a "criminal". The sister sheltered for a while, but then from her had to go to a rented apartment. Vanin dad, who remained in St. Petersburg, also did not consider it necessary to show participation: "Once we were checked with him in VKontakte, he says like:" They write something on the Internet about you ... "And, as usual, went on a sunset."

To her surprise, unfamiliar or completely strangers - distant relatives in Finland, the godmother here in Karelia. Muranova and public organizations joined the case-they called from Agora, OVD-info, open edition, human rights. Human rights activists found a lawyer for her.

It seems to me that a person with a bouquet will run out and say that this is the Provigry program

- The farthest people who, it seemed to me, will never come to my aid, now they are in contact, they constantly call me, ask how things are. I did not even expect that there were such people, ”says Muranova. - They call me from Paris, from Belarus, from Ukraine, from Poland, from the Czech Republic. The guys write to me: "Katerina, hold on! Maybe you send a money?" It seems to me that suddenly a person with a bouquet will run out and say that this is the “draw” program. When I begin to remember this, I begin to drive, I am unpleasant, I feel bad. I begin to think what the filthy government we have - about all this bad. No, it’s better not to think. I don't know what to do.

"Then he was afraid that someone would come"

The criminal case froze after the search and the first interrogations. “Since March, as it was opened, it is all worth it. I was only included in the list of existing terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring, my number is 5716 ...” says Katya.

- How did you find out that you are in the registry?

- It was two months ago, at the end of May. We sat, ordered some things to a child from the Internet. SSEMASK came: "Your accounts are blocked. Goodbye." That's all. I went to Yandex.Koshelk - even there is blocked. PayPal blocked. Everywhere where I had money, in all accounts - everything is blocked there. Then they sent me a letter by mail, officially: "You were included in the list of extremists." My investigator was on vacation. I called him and said: "So and so, they put me on this list." - "Yes, this can be. It is all officially, we will not be able to do anything."

"I want to work." - "Yes, we take you." And then it turned out that there was nowhere to transfer the salary

- And how are you now?

Katya does not answer immediately.

- I still have a child with asthma, he has constant attacks. That is, I need to constantly be with him, I cannot go to work. I have a store near the house, I went to them and said: "I want to work." - "Yes, we take you." And then it turned out that there was nowhere to transfer the salary. They say: "We have everything through the bank, we cannot give you out in cash." Here is such a thing.

- What do you live for?

- So far, we have an “ anarchist black cross ” ( autonomous anarchist organization that supports repressed supporters. - RS ), they transfer to us 11 thousand rubles a month. We live with this money.

"But we do not need it yet!" - Muranova is kidding. Needs, he says, we have modest, she herself is a vegan. Textbooks, clothes for a kindergarten, where Vanya will begin to go in the fall, was stockpile.

“We have a Bear Mountain here, here we go to it,” says Katya. -We walk through the forest, collect some mushrooms, berries. That is, I devote a little man to the world of nature. He likes it.

-Does Vanya know anything about your criminal case?

- No, now he has such an age that childhood and childhood. Let a person live better in ignorance. Then, after the search, he said that "the terrible uncles came," then he was afraid of another week, that someone would come.

"Catherine, we are busy"

The small provincial Medvezhyegorsk is a rather depressed place: "So the Soviet Union is flourishing here that it is generally tin. This is almost a village." The only woman with the Dreadasures feels not very comfortable here, and you can understand her unwillingness to talk about her criminal case. She faces up to seven years in prison.

- Here, here every dog knows each other. The factories were closed, absolutely all factories. We have nothing, only shops, one hospital for the whole area. Live as you want. God's forgotten place, ”Muranova describes.

Katya can’t leave the city with her son, they took a recognizance not to leave her from her. She has been waiting for a call from the investigator for the fourth month.

- I call the investigators, and they: "We are busy, do other things. We will call you back. Where are you in a hurry? Do you want to quickly go to jail?"

- Do they treat you as a real criminal?

You came up with enemies and yourself with your invented enemies fight

- I have an investigator - a very good -natured uncle. I can’t imagine how he came to work in the FSB. He is straight by the whole "soul of an open." Such a positive, constantly some kind of jokes-prisoners he has.

“You asked a good uncle, doesn’t it seem to him this business with complete nonsense?”

- Of course, I immediately said it to them: "You are just fighting the air." I say: "Guys, you do not do what you need at all. You came up with enemies for yourself and you will fight with your fictional enemies." Even my father said that this is a complete nonsense, it should not be so. Dad immediately remembered the 37th year.

- How did you get carried away with anarchism?

- This happened thanks to my deceased grandmother. She said: when she lived in Romania, German soldiers came to her, take her brother to the front, and she took off her pants and showed them w ** y. My grandmother was a rebel for life. The only adequate person. And then I sit in history lessons, and they tell us: saline riots, potato riots. And it all interested me so much: "Wow! People resisted the system. Something does not like something-he went and rebel. Why can I not?" That's all. I caught fire with ideas: if everything is so imperfect in the world, so unfair, then somehow we must fight it.

We should not have the owners. We are not kittens, we are not puppies

- What is anarchism today?

- This is freedom, probably - moral, personal freedom for each person. As everyone says: anarchy is chaos. This is not chaos, on the contrary, it is a close -knit system. First of all, this is solidarity with each other. Everyone has the right to choose what to do, the right to freedom. If we balance each other, support each other, it will be cool and great, it seems to me. We should not have the owners. We are not kittens, we are not puppies. Each person is a person. And each person must have the right to his ideas, the ability to realize himself, not to heat his talents. We now have a lot of people in the city just get drunk, they do not find realization for themselves. Unpromising.

- The criminal case did not force you to adjust the beliefs?

- This is in my head, and it will not go anywhere, I hope. But today I am actually a housewife - I’m sitting at home, I’m not touching anyone, and then my uncles come to me.

- Why are you mentally preparing?

I want it all not left like this: they give a fine - and all on that

- To a fine. I hope this will be a fine, like Slavik Lukichev , Slavik and I corresponded. He has the same trouble: he also made a repost, commented on the same record. He was given 300 thousand fine, and everything was more or less.

- There is no hope for a complete excuse, then?

-I really want to complain somewhere higher-in the ECHR, to the European court. I want it that all this is not left like this: they give a fine - and that’s all. No, this is an unpleasant situation for me. I want to fight.