SK: security forces convinced Arkhangelsk activist Drevarkh the Enlightened to return to Russia and cooperate with the investigation

The court in Arkhangelsk sent opponent Andrei Khristoforov, who calls himself Drevarkh the Enlightened, under house arrest. This was reported by the Western Transport Directorate of the Investigative Committee.

The department noted that investigators contacted Khristoforov on social networks, “established psychological contact with him” and “convinced him to return to the territory of the Russian Federation and cooperate with the investigation.”

Khristoforov, who participated in the protests on Shies, left for Ukraine in September 2019 after a criminal case was opened against him for using violence against a policeman in a train carriage (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code).

According to investigators, Khristoforov hit a police officer in the hand with a stun gun when he began to draw up a report on him for an emergency stop of a train with a stop valve at the Shies station. On this day, trains stopped stopping there. Khristoforov, a group 2 disabled person, said that the police themselves beat him during his arrest using a stun gun.

Having left Russia, Khristoforov violated the undertaking not to leave, taken from him as part of the case. to get asylum in Ukraine He was going . Novaya Gazeta wrote that in the summer of 2021 he announced his return, “since his family remained in Russia.”

During protests against construction in Shies, Khristoforov was also detained for pouring urine on police officers with a water pistol, and fined for a rally and concert against the construction of a landfill.