
Alexey Chesnokov. Photo: from personal archive
In Petrozavodsk, activist Alexei Chesnokov is judged, he is accused of insulting a representative of the authorities -. The case was opened after a comment on Facebook under the post of anarchist, convicted of anarchist Yekaterina Muranova. A witness in the case of Chesnokov is a person who is the last two years methodically sends denunciations to different regions of the country.
The fact that he had a criminal case of insulting a representative of the authorities, Alexei Chesnokov found out on June 10 last year - in an apartment in Petrozavodsk, where his wife lives, came with a search. The security forces seized the equipment, and during the interrogation they demonstrated a printed screenshot of the comment sent from his Facebook account. "Hang the trace of fag!" - The user wrote under the nickname ALEX CheES under the post of Ekaterina Muranova, fined under the article.
In December 2019, the Second Western District Military Court at the on -site meeting in the Supreme Court of Karelia appointed a resident of the small Karelian city of Medvezhyegorsk, Ekaterina Muranova, 350 thousand rubles. The court recognized the justification of terrorism by her commentary on the VKontakte entry about Mikhail Zhlobitsky, who undermined himself in the reception of the Archangelsk Department of the FSB. Muranova wrote: “The world of his dust! Hero*". In court, she explained her comment by the fact that she wanted to honor the memory of the deceased and never supported terrorism. She also asked the court to take into account that she put the “*” star at the end of the message, due to the fact that she was ambiguous of the act of Zlobitsky.
The victim in the case of insulting a representative of the authorities is an senior investigator for particularly important cases of the Investigative Department of the Federal Security Service of the FSB Karelia Alexei Repnikov. He investigated the case of Muranova, his phone number and the decision to initiate a criminal case in October 2019, a resident of Medvezhyegorsk published on her Facebook. Repnikov learned about the recording of Muranova and the comments of the user Aleh Chees from a resident of Solnechnogorsk Danila Mikheev, the case file says. Mikheev called the Lieutenant Colonel of Justice around 18 pm October 9 and sent screenshots from the Muranova page.
“He said that Muranova published my personal data: surname, name and patronymic, position, title, as well as my mobile phone number,” says repniks in his testimony. “Mikheev sent screenshots of recording and users' comments on my mobile phone.”
The advantage of ALEX CHEES Comment by the investigator Repnikov considered the threat, so I decided to find out who owns the Facebook page. “I was wondering who this person who wrote insults to me and called for my murder,” the investigator continues. “I found out that the person using this page is Alexei Veniaminovich Chesnokov, who adheres to anti -government views.”
The indictment says that Chesnokov not only publicly offended the FSB officer, but also “belittled by the authority of law enforcement officials as a whole, equally undermining the authority and normal activities of state authorities.”
Alexey Chesnokov says that he personally does not know Muranov, but corresponded with a girl on Facebook. He claims that he did not write a comment that the FSB investigator was offended.
“For me, the text of the phrase is offensive, I would never have written like that,” he assures. -I used to have situations when they broke something: mail, before that there was a phone-I saw some other people's notes there, photos. And I wrote a few comments [on the Muranova page], but I cannot find them in the case file. Of all the comments, they left only one. But I did not write it. "
The resident of Solnechnogorsk Danil Mikheev also testified against Ekaterina Muranova in 2019 and has since regularly sends complaints to different regions of the country and has become a witness to criminal cases.
So, in October 2019, the third -year student of the Russian State Service for the Russian Federation Vladimir Utenkov, on the complaint of Mikheev, was excited for "propaganda or public demonstration of Nazi paraphernalia or symbols." Utenkova was accused of the fact that the five -minute video posted in Vkontakte entitled “The last days of the Third Reich, the defense of Berlin (German documentary of 1945)” contains the propaganda of Nazi symbols. According to Utenkov, Mikheev then threatened him that “he would definitely put him in prison,” but the court did not find propaganda in the videos and closed the case.
In 2019, Danila Mikheev was a 4 -year student at the Russian State Code. He told Doxa and Novaya Gazeta , which helps the university leadership - namely, the RSSU security service - to identify opposition students.
“I contributed to the capture of real terrorists, extremists and those who have not yet grown to their category,” Mikheev told about his mission. - This is in many ways and for themselves help, no matter how they relate to this. You need to pull a person on time. ”
After the complaint of Mikheev, the Vologda activist Yuri Shadrin in June 2019 was fined for the status in VKontakte “Putin ******* [fool] is not fairy -tale, but real”.
The activist said that he published him as a sign of solidarity with Yuri Kartizhev from the Novgorod region - the first person involved in the article about disrespect for power. In February 2020, the Verkhovazhsky District Court of the Vologda Region fined Shadrin another 50 thousand rubles - and also after Mikheev’s complaint.
“Danila Mikheev, who came to me last time, developed his activities. Now he rolled a complaint against me not only about the “disrespect of power” in the person of Vladimir Putin and, but also accuses me of spreading knowingly false information about the role of the USSR in World War II and the justification of General Andrei Vlasov, ”Chadrin wrote on his VKontakte page.
In July 2020, Mikheev turned to the Center of Udmurtia with a denunciation of Oleg Vasiliev, at that time - an activist of the headquarters of Navalny in Izhevsk. Three months later, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Izhevsk appointed Vasiliev a fine of a thousand rubles for the supporters of Navalny “let us remember the crooks and thieves of their manifesto-2002”, published on his page in 2017.
In February 2021, activist Alexei Sokirko wrote about Danil Mikheev for seven days on charges of organizing an inconsistent action. On January 22, Sokirko was detained in Moscow-he was accused of handing someone leaflets with an appeal to participate in the rally in support of Navalny. The witness Danila Mikheev, according to the case file, heard their conversation in the subway.
“Witness Mikheev said that he accidentally ended up at the site of our meeting, saw that someone was handing over opposition leaflets, managed to get the phone and shoot on the video,” wrote Sokirko about the court. -The video was shot from a distance of 20-30 meters. You can’t see the letters. The witness in the noisy metro from the distance of twenty meters “heard” only one sentence “must be stuck”, then the witness went to the place of the program and saw that one A4 format “fell out”, he picked it up and attributed it to the police. ”
In the materials of the case of Petrozavodsk, Alexei Chesnokov, the phone of Mikheev is indicated, but Danila refused to answer the “mediazones” questions. He does not consider himself a “professional” witness and is sure that he works for the good of his homeland.
“This is the nonsense that the enemies of our country write, and you [Mediazona] are the enemies of our country,” Mikheev nervous. - Why should I answer the enemies? What I need, I say in my own way. "
At the same time, Mikheev confirmed that he had already graduated from the Russian State Service and is working "in the direction in which he should work." He finished which faculty, Mikheev refused to answer, although the university’s website states that a person with the same name in 2019 studied in the third year of the Department of Management (the direction “Conflictology”). In 2020, an order was also placed there to enroll Mikheev in the magistracy in the direction of "Organization of work with youth."
“We will grant this or limit your rights if necessary,” Mikheev was getting excited. “We are the people of Russia, Russian citizens who protect this country who live in this country!”
Mikheev claims that "his every action leads to ensure that the country is in the country" and wants "people to live normally."
“So that we do not have such precedents, such as Chesnokov, so that we do not have such allegedly the media that destroy our country,” he said in conclusion. - You are not the owners here! While I am alive, while my whole environment is alive, while our president is alive, our leader! ”
Editor: Dmitry Treshchin