Cases were opened against Kan teenagers for the manufacture and storage of explosives

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, three teenagers from Kansk were charged with four episodes of manufacturing and three episodes of storage of explosives (part 2 of article 223.1 of the Criminal Code, part 2 of article 222.1 of the Criminal Code). about this with reference to the press service of the regional Investigative Committee. writes Mediazona

According to the preliminary version of the department, Nikita Uvarov, Denis Mikhailenko and Bogdan Andreev from October 2019 to June 2020 "united into a group for the subsequent joint implementation of terrorist activities." The teenagers allegedly "were independently trained in the manufacture of explosives, made them, and practiced their use in practice in an abandoned house, on wastelands and construction sites."

Two teenagers remain in isolation, one under house arrest. Their cases were combined into one production.

On March 9, the Investigative Committee dropped the case against the Kanan teenagers for participation in a terrorist community (part 2 of article 205.4 of the Criminal Code), initiated because of their correspondence, in which they discussed the comic explosion of the FSB building, built in the computer game Minecraft. The investigation considered that there was no corpus delicti in the actions of teenagers, due to the lack of “the necessary structure”, units, as well as “a clear distribution of functions between the participants”.

Teenagers are still charged with training to carry out terrorist activities (Article 205.3 of the Criminal Code).

• Nikita Uvarov and Denis Mikhailenko were first detained in the summer of 2020 after posting leaflets in support of the arrested anarchist and mathematician Azat Miftakhov: they pasted one of them on the FSB building. The students were released with their phones confiscated. Having gained access to the teenagers' correspondence, the security forces learned that the schoolchildren had built the FSB building in the Minecraft computer game and were going to blow it up as a joke.
• The next day, Uvarov and Mikhailenko were detained again, this time together with Bogdan Andreev. Nikita was sent to a pre-trial detention center, and Denis and Bogdan were placed under house arrest. The forensic examination draws attention to the fact that teenagers shared the news of Novaya Gazeta and OVD-Info with each other, quoted Peter Kropotkin and Kurt Cobain in correspondence, and also listened to Yegor Letov's songs.