Moscow State University graduate student Azat Miftakhov was finally charged with attacking the United Russia office

The Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Northern District of Moscow was presented to a graduate student of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov Azat Miftakhov charged with attacking the branch of United Russia in Khovrino in the final version. about this Lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina told to Current Time

According to the document, on January 30 last year, Miftakhov, as a member of the "unregistered left-wing radical anarchist movement" People's Self-Defense ", broke a window in the office of the party on Onezhskaya Street, where they then threw a smoke bomb. People's Self-Defense then published a video of the action, denying any involvement in it.

“A smoke bomb was excluded from the motivational part of the charge <..> Azat is charged with broken glass,” the lawyer specified. Four more activists are accused in the case - animal rights activist Elena Gorban, as well as anarchists Andrei Eikin, Alexei Kobaidze and Stanislav Rechkalov. The last two are wanted - the defenders reported that they had left the country.

Miftakhov has been under arrest in the case of arson of the United Russia office since February. At the same time, he was detained, charged with making a homemade bomb found in Balashikha, but soon the suspicions were removed. Miftakhov himself called the case fabricated and talked about torture in the department. He was supported by many famous scientists, in particular the American linguist Noam Chomsky.