The court upheld the sentences of the defendants in the “Rostov case” Sidorov and Mordasov

A court in Rostov-on-Don upheld the sentences of Vladislav Mordasov and Yan Sidorov, convicted in the case of “mass riots” due to a picket and telegram chat. Mediazona reports this.

Sidorov was sentenced to 6 years and 6 months in a maximum security colony, Mordasov to 6 years and 7 months under the article on attempted organization and participation in mass riots (Part 3 of Article 30, Parts 1 and 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code). Another person involved in the case, Vyacheslav Shashmin, received a suspended sentence of 3 years, allegedly for “attempted participation in riots” (part 3 of article 30, part 2 of article 212 of the Criminal Code).

• On November 5, 2017, in Rostov-on-Don, Sidorov and Mordasov planned to hold a picket demanding the resignation of the regional government. They, as well as Shashmina, were detained shortly before the start of the action. The security forces charged the detainees with “the intention to involve all members of the group “Revolution 5/11/17 Rostov-on-Don” in the Telegram messenger in mass riots.”
• This chat was administered by Sidorov and Mordasov. Shashmin, like them, discussed only peaceful protest in the chat. A few days before the “revolution,” people appeared in the discussion who began to call for a coup d’etat, pogroms, and armed resistance to the police. Due to the fact that there were many such messages, the chat administrators did not delete them or ban the authors, but simply tried to ignore them.
• On November 5, 2017, in different cities of Russia, supporters of Vyacheslav Maltsev, the leader of the Artpodgotovka movement, took to the streets because he promised that a revolution would happen on that day. In total, according to OVD-Info, in the wake of the “revolution”, cases were opened in 10 cities against at least 35 people, including on terrorism charges.