Security forces seized a computer from the former coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters in Krasnoyarsk without a warrant

On November 17, security forces in Krasnoyarsk inspected and seized equipment from Ruslan Rudenko, a journalist for the regional publication Prospekt Mira, former coordinator of Navalny’s local headquarters. He himself told OVD-Info about this.

According to the young man, two employees of the Krasnoyarsk FSB department came to his editorial office and stated that, according to their information, from his workplace he was assisting “Navalny’s headquarters” in their “extremist activities.” Despite the fact that the security forces did not have the appropriate court order or documents to initiate a case, they examined Rudenko’s work computer.

After this, the journalist was taken to the FSB headquarters, from where, together with a group of people in civilian clothes, they were taken to his home. According to him, along the way, the security forces took his phone and joked about the need to send the young man to Donbass “to participate in a special operation.”

Officers searched Rudenko’s apartment and seized his personal computer and employment documents at Prospekt Mira. The security forces also threatened him that “the matter will not be limited to one search,” but the activist never received any information about his status in any criminal cases.

In 2016, Rudenko was nominated as a candidate for deputy of the State Duma as part of the federal list of the PARNAS party, and in 2021 - for deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. In addition, in 2017–2019, he headed Navalny’s Krasnoyarsk headquarters, as well as the territorial branch of the Open Russia movement.

• On June 9, 2021, the Moscow City Court recognized ⁠ the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), the Foundation for the Protection of Citizens' Rights (FZPG) and the headquarters of Alexei Navalny as extremist organizations. An appeals court later upheld this decision. After this, supporters of the opposition politician began to leave Russia en masse.
• At the end of September 2021, the Investigative Committee announced that a case had been opened against Navalny and his associates, as well as other activists, regarding an extremist community (Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). Later it became known that several other cases filed earlier against the politician and several key figures in his structures were added to this case. Currently, within the framework of one case, in addition to the article on the extremist community, there are also articles on the financing of extremist activities (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code), on the legalization of funds acquired by other persons through criminal means (clause “b” of Part 4 Article 174 of the Criminal Code), on the creation of a non-profit organization that infringes on the personality and rights of citizens (Part 2 of Article 239 of the Criminal Code) and on the involvement of minors in dangerous activities (paragraphs “a”, “c” of Part 2 of Article 151.2 of the Criminal Code) ).
• As part of the case on the extremist community, the courts chose a preventive measure for former coordinators of Navalny's regional headquarters Liliya Chanysheva , Vadim Ostanin , Zakhara Sarapulov , Ksenia Fadeeva and employee of the Arkhangelsk headquarters Yegor Butakov . Chanysheva and Ostanin are in a pre-trial detention center, Sarapulov, Fadeeva and Butakov are under a ban on certain actions. The former technical director of Navalny LIVE, Daniel Kholodny, is also under arrest. Ex-employee of Navalny's Arkhangelsk headquartersElizaveta Bychkova and volunteer Olga Shkolina were given a written undertaking not to leave.