Political strategist Pyotr Miloserdov was released

Political strategist Pyotr Miloserdov, who served a sentence of two and a half years in a general regime colony under the article on creating an extremist community (Part 1 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code), was released. He wrote about this on his Facebook page.

As Miloserdov himself notes, he actually spent a year and 8 months in the colony, since the days spent in the pre-trial detention center during the investigation were counted toward the prison term of “a day and a half.” Miloserdov is sure that he was sentenced to this term for refusing to give false testimony against Alexander Potkin (Belov).

Pyotr Miloserdov was detained on January 24, 2018. According to investigators, he, together with nationalist Alexander Potkin (Belov), created an extremist community, whose members planned to overthrow the government in Kazakhstan. The investigation declared two texts allegedly authored by Miloserdov and Potkin as evidence: “Angry Kazakh” and “Tentative plan of events for the preparation of actions on December 16” (Independence Day of Kazakhstan).

Miloserdov claimed that Potkin ordered from him a political research study and an expert report on the situation in Kazakhstan, for which he interviewed local public figures for five days.

• Alexander Potkin in 2016 was sentenced to seven and a half years in a general regime colony and a fine of 300 thousand rubles. He was found guilty of creating an extremist community (Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code), inciting hatred (Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code), public calls for extremist activities (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) and money laundering (Part 4 of Article 174 of the Criminal Code). Potkin's sentence was later reduced to three and a half years.
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