Center "E" conducted a search at the home of an expert of the Public Chamber of Rostov-on-Don

Employees of the Center for Combating Extremism conducted a search at the home of Nikolai Larin, an expert of the Rostov-on-Don Public Chamber. This was reported by the publication Kavkaz.Realii.

reports The investigative actions were carried out as part of the case against local journalist Sergei Reznik, who was convicted of an article on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) due to a post on a Telegram channel.

Larin believes that the actions of the security forces are an attempt to put pressure on him. The expert is involved in solving city problems and connects the visit of the "eshniks" with activism.

Larin recently posted on social networks about banners for the anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War, on which, by order of the administration, photographs of German military equipment were placed. "The photographs with the fascists never disappeared from the central street. Instead of identifying the culprits, the Center for Combating Extremism came to me, and the officials got off with formal replies," the man commented on the incident.

• Journalist Sergei Reznik is involved in corruption investigations; since 2011, he has been repeatedly attacked and threatened. Reznik was found guilty in two criminal cases. In the first case, the journalist was charged with commercial bribery of an employee of a vehicle inspection station (Article 204 of the Criminal Code), false denunciation of threats (Article 306 of the Criminal Code), and insulting a government official (Article 319 of the Criminal Code) — the chairman of the Arbitration Court of the Rostov Region, whom he called a shrew. In November 2013, he was sentenced to one and a half years in prison. Human Rights Center "Memorial" Reznik is a political prisoner. accused sentenced admitted - The second case against Sergei Reznik is about false denunciation (Article 306 of the Criminal Code) — because the journalist suspected a Rostov police operative of pedophilia, as well as because of insulting government officials (Article 319 of the Criminal Code). In January 2015, Reznik was sentenced to three years in prison (taking into account the previous sentence) and banned from working in the media for two years. The appellate court sentenced him to one month in prison and two months in the profession. A criminal case against the man under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) was opened in October 2021 due to his publications on a Telegram channel. In March 2022, he was . opened , sentenced , reduced , arrested in absentia.