Former operator of Navalny's Arkhangelsk headquarters was sentenced to two and a half years in prison

The Arkhangelsk Regional Court sentenced Ruslan Akhmetshin, a former cameraman and photographer from Navalny’s headquarters in Arkhangelsk, to two and a half years in a penal colony. This is what SOTA is about.

reports He was also ordered to pay 180 thousand rubles for the work of expert psychologists and historians as part of the investigation into the case, SOTAvision.

writes Akhmetshin was found guilty under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism (part 2 and part 4 of article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) because of comments on VKontakte - he allegedly called the celebration of May 9 in Russia a “vulgar carnival”, and also wrote that the USSR and Germany were allies for two years and together occupied Poland.

The prosecutor's office sentenced Akhmetshin to three years in a penal colony and prohibited him from administering websites for five years, since he “has popularity, subscribers and can influence the formation of public opinion.”

requested the case against the man in March. Initially, Akhmetshin was given a ban on certain actions as a preventive measure, but in May he was placed in pre-trial detention because of an attempt to travel to Yerevan for treatment. Later, the term of imprisonment was repeated.

initiated, sent , extended, Akhmetshin was also one of the defendants in the suit of the Arkhangelsk police against local activists - on October 24, the court filed a lawsuit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in which the department asked to recover 766,183.88 rubles from nine people. Allegedly, these were the expenses incurred by the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs due to the fact that police officers had to go to work after hours during rallies in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23 and 31, 2021.

was satisfied Added information about the assigned compensation for the work of experts. - After the start of the war with Ukraine, the number of cases under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) increased sharply - presumably, the security forces use this article to put pressure on those who could potentially oppose the “special operation” in Ukraine and its “denazification.” According to the SOVA Information and Analytical Center, many cases under Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code are initiated unlawfully and should be qualified under other articles of the Criminal Code or resolved within the framework of civil rather than criminal proceedings. opinion - June 9, 2021 Moscow City Court Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), Foundation for the Defense of Citizens' Rights (FZPG) and Alexei Navalny's headquarters as extremist organizations. An appeals court later upheld this decision. After this, supporters of the opposition politician began to leave Russia en masse. admitted