"Citizen of the USSR" sent for compulsory treatment in the Rostov region

In April 2022, in the Rostov region, a court sent for compulsory treatment another "citizen of the USSR", who was accused of public calls for extremism.

In April 2022, the Bagaevsky District Court of the Rostov Region ruled in a criminal case on public incitement to extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code).

In the dock was Igor Sivozhelezov, a 65-year-old resident of the village of Vesely, who, according to law enforcement agencies, posted videos on social networks containing "calls for a violent change of power and a violent change in the foundations of the constitutional order of the Russian Federation." The videos are video messages from the "people's militia organization of people's order" associated with the nationalist Vladimir Kvachkov. After the initiation of a case against Sivozhelezov, the videos were recognized as extremist and included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials (pp. 5249-5251).

According to the case file, Sivozhelezov is a supporter of one of the "citizens of the USSR" movements. After the initiation of the case, his house was searched. during which forms of certificates were found in his name of "People's Judge of the Council of People's Deputies of the Rostov Region", a member of the "Committee for Public Control", as well as "the chairman of the trade union of the Rostov Region of the professional free Union "Soyuz SSR"". All documents are dated 2017 - 2019. In addition, they found a passport of a citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in his name, allegedly issued on July 31, 2018. In the passport in the nationality column it says "Russian Great Russian".

The court found Sivozhelezov guilty, but stopped the criminal prosecution, sending him to compulsory treatment.

Sources

• "Russian Great Russian" from the Rostov region was sent to a mental hospital for treatment // Interfax. 2022. April 22.