In Moscow, the operator of the FBK Pavel Zelensky was detained

In Moscow, the operator of the Foundation for the fight against corruption Pavel Zelensky was detained. This was reported by "Mediazona" with reference to the head of the legal department of the Foundation Vyacheslav Himadi.

Himadi said that, according to Zelensky’s wife, the FBK operator was taken away from the house of the Investigative Committee in Moscow. It is still unknown what the detention is connected with. According to the telegram channel "Kremlin laundry", against Zelensky they opened a case of calls for extremism on the Internet (part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code).

10:40 The head of the Agora human rights group Pavel Chikov, citing a lawyer, Mansur Gilmanov, said that Pavel Zelensky was accused of calling for extremism on the Internet for a tweet of journalist Irina Slavina.

In the morning, Zelensky was a search at home, during which a laptop and a telephone were seized. During the search of Zelensky, they hit the head, an ambulance goes to him in the Main Investigative Directorate of the IC in Moscow.

11:30 The investigator forbids the ambulance doctors of the FBK video operator Pavel Zelensky, the head of the Agora Pavel Chikov, citing lawyer Mansur Gilmanov, reports .

A civilian employee applied violence to a lawyer and pushed him out of the investigator’s office.

16:30 the head of the Agora international human rights group Pavel Chikov in his telegram channel published a decision to initiate a criminal case against Zelensky.

“Zelensky P.A., negatively referring to the existing constitutional system and state authorities <...> posted <...> own publications (tweets) containing threats and hostile statements in relation to a number of personified representatives of the state power of the Russian Federation with a text that begins with the“ Irina, forgive us, forgive us ... ”and ending with words. “... Bastards are unworthy of life,” ”writes an investigator of the FSB department in Moscow and the Moscow region.

The investigation indicates that Zelensky’s posts “watched a significant number of users” Twitter. The security forces clarify that the publications gained more than 190 retweets and 900 likes.

17:20 The investigation in the case of Zelensky sent a petition to the Presnensky court of Moscow. This was reported by "MBH Media" with reference to the press secretary of the court.

“The investigator’s petition for the election of Pavel Andresovich’s measure of restraint in the form of detention in the form of a period until February 28, 2021 was received,” the court officer quoted the publication.

18:50 Presnensky District Court arrested Zelensky until February 28, Pavel Chikov reports with reference to the lawyer Mansur Gilmanov.

• Irina Slavina is the chief of the Nizhny Novgorod publication Kozapress, on October 2, 2020, she performed self -immolation at the Building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Nizhny Novgorod. Before that, she wrote on Facebook: "In my death, I ask you to blame the Russian Federation." The journalist repeatedly faced the pressure of local security forces. The day before her death, she had a search in the case of the activities of the “unwanted organization” “Open Russia” in Nizhny Novgorod.