Four people allegedly involved in “Citizens of the USSR” were arrested in Makhachkala

On March 14, the Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala arrested four people suspected of involvement in “Citizens of the USSR” until May 11. The Caucasian Knot is about this.

Presumably, these could be Zainal and Ruslan Abdulaev, Tatyana Fomina and Sharap Davudov. On March 12, their employees of the Investigative Committee in Dagestan.

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detained The defendants are charged with organizing and participating in the activities of an extremist organization (part 1 and part 2 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The case against them was opened on March 11. According to investigators, the detainees “organized meetings, held lectures on the study of the ideology of unification, expressed in denial of the collapse of the USSR as a state, denial of the constitutional system of the modern Russian Federation, and obstruction of the legitimate activities of government bodies.”

On March 12, the Abdulaevs, Fomina and Davudov gathered at the office of the Makhachkala Executive Committee of the DASSR and the Trade Union of the DASSR to hold a meeting there. Later, security forces burst into the premises, took away everyone’s phones, seized equipment from the office and took the detainees to the police department.

• “Citizens of the USSR” is a movement uniting fighters for the restoration of the rights of citizens of the USSR. Followers of the organization believe that the Union continues to exist, and the Russian Federation is a “trading company.” Some of the participants in “Citizens of the USSR” refuse any ties with Russia as a state, for example, they do not sign any documents and notify local authorities of the need to vacate their posts.
• In the summer of 2019, the Supreme Court of the Komi Republic established the organization “Union of Slavic Forces of Rus'” - USSR. He considered that the activities of this association are aimed at forcibly changing the foundations of the constitutional system and violating the integrity of the Russian Federation. The FSB, in turn, allegedly discovered branches of this organization in 30 regions of the country. According to the law enforcement agency, in 2018 there were 150 thousand people in the “Union of Slavic Forces of Rus'”. recognized as extremist