"Not a mistake, but a planned process." The wife of the Khabarovsk graffitist - about his criminal case

On May 11, the security forces came to the Khabarovsk artist-graphist Maxim Smolnikov, known under the pseudonym Xadad . The detention of the artist in time coincided with an attack on a school in Kazan, so this message was lost in the news stream. The next day, Smolnikov was placed in a pre -trial detention center, where he is still located.

The security forces believe that Smolnikov was engaged in the justification of terrorism-because of the post on the “desperate act” of an anarchist student Mikhail Zholobitsky. Smolnikov associated the actions of Zhlobitsky with political repression and torture of prisoners and did not speak anywhere about the explosion approvingly - but the investigation considered the interpretation of Zhlobitsky’s motives sufficient to initiate the case.

Mediazona talked with the wife of the artist Svetlana Gordienko and gives her story about her husband and his criminal case.

Search

They returned from vacation, the May holidays passed, and on the first working day we burst into us in the morning - without ten seven in the morning. A terrible knock, I wake up and do not understand: I think a drunken neighbor. Run to open, they say: "Urgently open, the police, in the case of Smolnikov." I say: "Can I put on pants?" At that moment, they begin to break the door - they had giant nails, then the neighbors then reported to us.

11 people came: three riot police, two witnesses, two investigators, two opera, one FSB specialist-they apparently call all Feesbashniki specialists-and some nameless girl who said that she was an assistant to the investigator.

There was such an unpleasant moment: I had a phone in my hand, and I wanted to call lawyers, and they did not allow me to make a call from my own phone. They say: “Dictate the number”, I needed to see it on my phone. I look, I hold it in my hand, and my riot police begins to break it out of my hand.

So they took Max’s computer, my laptop, his phone, my phone and an old laptop, on which mainly the children played or watched YouTube. There was an opening account of Max in Gmail: they sat down and began to watch what the video on YouTube shook, and they began to make a “like on the video of Alexander Shubin about nationalism” to the interrogation protocol. ” This, of course, is such stupidity, Shubin is a historian, doctor of sciences, what is this in this.

On the morning of October 31, 2018, the FSB Office in the Arkhangelsk Region was entered by an anarchist student Mikhail Zhlobitsky, who activated the explosive device and died. Three employees of the department suffered. After that, a wave of searches swept through the country from those who at least somehow responded positively in social networks about the act of Zlobitsky-and, apparently, it has not yet been exhausted.

Smolnikov’s case became the 25th of the well-known cases of pursuing users of social networks, which in their posts “justified terrorism”.

There is no unified practice in such cases: some of the accused receives fines, part - real terms. So, a journalist from Pskov Svetlana Prokopyeva, who was discussing on the radio about the motifs of the bombist, was fined 500 thousand rubles, a large father from Koryazhma Oleg Nemtsev , a resident of Kaliningrad Lyudmila Stech and 53-year-old Omsk -for 350 thousand, Kaliningrad Anarchist Vyacheslav Lukichev -300 thousand.

The case of Perm Roman Subbotin was terminated , since the phrase “Hero of Russia must be given” “does not indicate a public call for terrorist activity, public justification of terrorism or propaganda of terrorism.”

At the same time, for the almost identical comment to Vologzhanin Sergey Arbuzov Dali was Dali five years in a maximum security colony. Ivan Lyubshin from Kaluga, in the past, fined in the case of extremism and rehabilitation of Nazism, also received five years of colony, but general regime for a comment on the explosion in the Arkhangelsk FSB. Kubanets Valery Klimenchenko received four years in a colony under articles on justification of terrorism and insulting police officers.

Max did not go into his computer, but I went into the laptop, and they climbed there joyfully. I also turned on my laptop myself - but I did not really understand how and how not to behave. In my opinion, they did not write passwords-I scored them on computers, they looked at us, photographed. On my personal laptop, telegrams were opened, they were very happy, found the XADAD channel there, they took a picture of the phone number - as I am now guessing, they now collected a ligament that Maxim's visors are XADAD.

I am still scared, because there were 11 people in the apartment, and they never were in one place at the same time. And what is the apartment here after this search, I still cannot understand. The search continued for four hours, no less. After that, Maxim was taken away for interrogation, and [we did not see each other].

"They began to rustle all"

For the first time we came to Max in April 2019, we only began to meet for a month. I remember that it was very strange when he suddenly disappeared for the whole day and then some very frightened returned.

It turned out that he was taken to the Investigative Committee for Interrogation - this is probably a procedural “dacha of explanation”. They took the phone, climbed on his phone, took some explanations about his post. He said that he condemns this act of Zhlobitsky.

Our lawyer said that the protocol of this interrogation was found and attached to some kind of Zlobitsky himself: as I understand it, this is something like a big investigation that investigators throughout Russia in different regions-they were looking for everyone who expresses some anarchist views or makes reposts from some certain publics, they began to rustle all.

After that, there was nothing for a long time. The penultimate alarm was, if I am not mistaken, on February 24: Max was brought to the work of the agenda, where it was written that he was called to the “E” center for an interrogation in the case of Zhlobitsky. Max was somehow scared, was alert, and we immediately contacted a lawyer. He was called by 9 in the morning, and the lawyer had a court in the morning, and he called the investigator and warned that they would come to dinner at 2 hours. They sat in the corridor for an hour and a half, an investigator or opera that Max called, walked past them, and then said: “That's it, I am not up to you, then.”

In early April, Max and I left for a month on vacation, traveled around Central Russia, and after the May came to us.

Court

What argues the investigation that it needs to be kept in jail: Max has no property in Khabarovsk, there is no registration and “restraining social ties”. We are not painted with him, and they perceive him as a homeless.

We prepared an agreement signed by the owner of the apartment to the court to choose a preventive measure, my mother, that she allows me to live as much as necessary. My mother and my mother were left behind me, because the lawyers wanted to call us as witnesses, but that in the First Court, that for some reason we flatly refused to call us, and we sat straight at the door. Today, the lawyer told me that he does not understand why the judge refuses to interrogate: here the witness sits by the hall. And the judge began to demand the “interrogation protocol”: [the protection must] interrogate and attach to the case file.

There was a lot of hopes for the appeal, but she made a shocking impression: the defense explains, gives arguments, reads that, the fifth to tenth, Max says something-and the prosecutor stands, reads the text on a piece of paper, where only the numbers, makes mistakes in the surname of Max (Smolkin, or something, or that, or called it).

It can be seen that someone was driven, they say, go, and the investigator did not even come to court. An incomprehensible tambourine, without question without disputes from the prosecution, and the judge leaves for five minutes and leaves the preventive measure without change. This is when you see, [understand] that it is not a mistake at some stage, that this is a direct planned process that will lead like this. You are standing in front of a person, you say something to him, and his way is to pretend that you are not here, look through you.

XADAD

Max painted all his life, since childhood, but it was on the street that he decided to go out almost at the age of 30, some such he took a bold step for himself. Now he is 37, but I heard the story that he used to be a member of the youth part of the Communist Party-in a student, in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, they went to rallies, prepared some posters, that is, he always included himself in a social and social agenda, for him important things.

He arrived in Khabarovsk either in the 14th or in the 15th year. Originally, he is a uritan village-such a very distant settlement on the spill of the lower Amur, he is from some simple farm family. He has two sisters, mom-dad: they live there now, the younger sister lives in Komsomolsk, the older sister in Khabarovsk, she goes through all this here.

Honestly, I think that life in the Northern Far Eastern village seems to make many things think. It seems that this is some kind of such a very and old thing for him-his interest in socio-political, social problems.

If we talk about human values, then the values ​​of modern anarchism, production is closest to him, because they imply a person of autonomous, independent, able to create their own small ties, find joint people and produce something in this world without being dependent on the state.

His graffiti turned into some kind of cultural code in the Far East: when these drawings began to appear, they began to take pictures with them, someone simply collects Xadad drawings. Max probably did not receive problems with the police, because he never painted on buildings, in some places forbidden-he usually painted on garages or on the walls of abandoned buildings.

He always worked during the day, talked with people who approach him and talk. More often, he met with some gratitude from the owners of the garages, he was asked: “And let you draw more”, “And let it go there,” “Let me buy you paint.”

The local television channel “Province” made a report about him , they have something about “Khabarovsk Banksy” on the site-all friends after that made fun of him.

What you need to understand about Max-and, apparently, this is somehow connected with his family-there everything is quite independent of thinking, but at the same time very loving each other. There was no way to express to Max about the drawings. Plus, you need to understand that Max's drawings are illustrations of the current agenda: something is happening somewhere in the world, and Max processes this plot, as there were no photographs in the newspapers and painted drawings.

Honestly, I am not very deeply oriented in this agenda - Max brought her to my life. At home, of course, we talked about what is happening, but I am more interested in the lawmaking perspective, I follow what our deputies do, how our administration behaves. And Max told me about some other [things], about the same sutu , about torture, as the security forces behave, about what is happening in the world of persecution. Until we were familiar, I did not really turn on to it - it’s hard to join it.

Max is working at the regional center for assessment of the quality of education, which is engaged in the organization of the exam and OGE. This is a state-owned institution, he has been working there for a long time-in my opinion, since the 15th year he has an employment contract. This agreement was read out in court, that is, very stable. He is the head of the technical support department, that is, it is both system work, as well as support for all these processes, passing exams. It turns out that he was seized just when several people from the department quit there, and on the way OGE and the exam, that is, there is a complete excitement, a nightmare and horror.

Expecto Patronum

Max and I have been living together for two years-since March 19. We have a good family: I have children, he helped me raise them. In general, I earn a living as an individual entrepreneur, I provide administrator services, oversee administrative work in one medical center, but in general I am a practicing psychologist: I am a gestalt-therapist, and I have a private practice. Once upon a time I was a journalist, but I did not contact journalism after the birth of children, because it did not help me very much to earn a living. Now I am developing my private practice.

Maxim's friends plan the second auction in his support; The first auction ended on May 23, there they collected something like 38 thousand rubles. Now I am just sitting and writing to everyone who comes to mind with a request to support information and something else. In the first days after the arrest, there were concerts that were all preceded by a message about what was happening. On Saturdays, we have small rallies of the supporters of the vangal - I was invited there, there was a man with a poster of “freedom of the Hadada”.

It is quite hot in Khabarovsk: everyone is preparing for the elections in September. I burst, wrote comments on the air [on Instagram] to our deputies city, but I was ignored. There is nothing in the media, absolute silence. Only the DVHAB portal wrote, which actively illuminates protests, every political agenda. Sotavision and Rusnyus also went to Max to the courts and wrote about it.

Of the political activists, a member of the regional Duma Maxim Kukushkin came to the court on the court, he used to be a member of the Communist Party, but there were terrible squabbles, and he was excluded. He remained the deputy, yesterday he was in court, but I have not heard any statements yet. He has activists who support him, and they on their Instagram to my request to comment on Smolnikov’s business answered in the spirit “this is a political matter where we go” and everything is in such a vein.

Max’s sister wrote to a girl who - maybe they heard a story about how a TV presenter in Kamchatka burst out laughing during the recording of the eyeliner when she read the amounts [payments] - is there? She made a repost and after that wrote: “Sorry, that's all I can do now because I am preparing for the elections, and this is the maximum that I am capable of now.”

I threw messages about Max in telegram chat [about politics], and there was the following answer: "I deleted the previous message, because there we are talking about justification of terrorism, well, his fuck."

Mom is crying, dad in shock, sister cries, everyone crying, write endless posts on Instagram. You need to understand what this is a lesson - you seem to make a post about Maxim every day, about Maxim, about Maxim; The information becomes fragmentary, someone is unsubscribing, because you are sick of, someone writes: "Have you hacked you?" Because this is a personal channel, where photos are with his favorite dog, and here it turns this: an explosion, and everyone is perplexed.

Max was arrested on the day the Kazan shooter happened. We have a search, and after five hours this large tragedy occurs. Of course, we could not get into any information agenda. Therefore, I continue to look for who else to write, where and to whom to give comments.

In general, in the early days it was very terrible from the fact that there are two parts of the people who surround you: one part says, you need to yell, you need to write, you need to make public, but there is another part that says: quieter, mouse, cat on the roof, do not know where you climb, you will be caught and bitten by all. Most often, younger people, my peers, about 30-35 years old, are supported by publicity, and familiar parents say no, we must be silent. And in such a state when you do not know what to do, it makes a very frightening impression that you can now make some big mistakes.

I have an absolute feeling that publicity, it is revealed over people like a protective umbrella - you know how Expecto Patronum in Harry Potter? And you need to try directly to call a good cartridge.

Editor: Dmitry Treshchin