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In Ufa, Dmitry Chuvilin, a member of the Kurultai of Bashkiria from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, was arrested in the case of participation in a terrorist community
The Sovetsky District Court of Ufa arrested Dmitry Chuvilin, a deputy of the Kurultai of Bashkiria from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and four other people in the case of a terrorist community. about this Writes "Kommersant Bashkortostan".
According to the publication, after the announcement of the preventive measure, Chuvilin went on a hunger strike, calling the court's decision political.
In addition to Chuvilin, the court also arrested pensioner Yuri Efimov, doctor of City Clinical Hospital No. 21 Alexei Dmitriev, Pavel Matisov and Rinat Brutkeev for two months. The Investigative Committee for the Republic of Bashkortostan notes that the youngest defendant in the case is 36 years old, the oldest is 62 years old. All of them were detained the day before.
Depending on the role and degree of participation, the arrested are accused of organizing a terrorist community (parts 1 and 2 of article 205.4 of the Criminal Code) and propaganda of terrorism (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), the UK specified.
"Mediazona" * writes that the organizer of the community is a 46-year-old member of the Marxist circle Pavel Matisov, who said that "in 2014 he left as a volunteer for the Donbass to protect the civilian population."
“According to the investigation, in the period from 2019 to 2022, a terrorist organization operated on the territory of the republic [Bashkortostan], the purpose of which was to prepare for a violent change in the constitutional order of Russia,” the department said.
The Investigative Committee added that during the searches, grenades, traumatic weapons, Molotov cocktails, extremist literature and “other items relevant to the investigation of the case” were found at the defendants in the case.
RBC notes that Chuvilin is 37 years old, he was elected to the State Assembly on a single list of the Communist Party in 2018. Kommersant Bashkortostan calls Chuvilin the coordinator of the local Left Front movement.