In St. Petersburg, the sentence for Vladimir Ivanyutenko, a defendant in the explosives case, was upheld

On September 19, the St. Petersburg City Court upheld the sentence of activist Vladimir Ivanyutenko, who was found guilty of possessing explosives (Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code). Human rights activist Dinar Idrisov reported this on his channel.

In March, Ivanyutenko was sentenced to three years and two months in a penal colony and a fine of 20 thousand rubles. Taking into account the time the man had previously spent in a pretrial detention center, the term is considered served. He has also paid the fine by now.

appointed Initially, the St. Petersburg resident was sentenced to three and a half years in a penal colony - this happened in February 2020. The defense appealed this decision: as a result, the appellate court sent the sentence back for review - and Ivanyutenko was released. He was in custody from February 2019 to 2020.

cancelled was in October According to the investigation, Ivanyutenko illegally stored explosives and detonators in the Pyaterochka grocery store. The investigator, as follows from the united press service of the courts of St. Petersburg, indicated that he "holds nationalist views, carries out actions aimed at calling for extremist actions, including using force, is an active participant in the nationalist organization "Anti-War Committee", is not registered in Russia."

Activist reports that he became the victim of a provocation carried out by Georgy Levin, who had been communicating with St. Petersburg oppositionists since 2017. According to Ivanyutenko, Levin offered him to kill either anti-gay activist Timur Bulatov or a businessman whom the activist suspects of involvement in the attack on him in 2017. Ivanyutenko did not agree to Levin's proposals.

stated Yevgeny Prigozhin In December 2018, the oppositionist, Levin handed him a package containing “something similar to plastic explosives (or putty), two objects similar to electric detonators, and one and a half meters of fuse cord.” Ivanyutenko did not open the package right away, then got scared, spent some time thinking about ways to return the contents to Levin and chose what seemed to him a safer option — through a camera in Pyaterochka.

told At Ivanyutenko's trial, a secret witness testified, who allegedly discussed the assassination attempt on Prigozhin with the defendant. The activist believes that it was Levin.

• Vladimir Ivanyutenko regularly participated in protests. In particular, at the end of September 2018, a court in St. Petersburg sentenced him to ten days in prison for the action "We won't make it to retirement." Then the man performed a performance, depicting Putin riding on pensioners. A protocol was drawn up against Ivanyutenko for repeated violation of the rules for holding an event (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). arrested - In 2017, an unknown person stabbed Ivanyutenko with a knife. In 2018, an activist of the attacker in the hero of the Novaya Gazeta investigation about businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin - Valery Amelchenko, who told the publication that he participated in attacks on political activists, in chemical poisoning operations and carried out other tasks in Russia, Ukraine, the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics and in Syria on behalf of "curators" from Prigozhin's structures hit found out