Defense experts found no evidence to justify terrorism in the case of the artist Xadad

Defense specialists did not find any signs of justification for terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) in the words of the artist Maxim Smolnikov (Xadad), because of which a criminal case was opened against him. The experts presented the results of their examination at a meeting of the Eastern District Military Court in Khabarovsk. Smolnikov and his wife Svetlana Gordienko told about this to "".

SOTAvision Activatika The defense is seeking a review of the comprehensive psychological and linguistic examination conducted by the investigation. Defense specialists - a psychologist and a linguist - drew the court's attention to the gross errors that were present there.

Smolnikov’s wife said that they decided to turn to independent experts when they received the results of the examination from the investigation. According to her, even for a non-specialist, the examination looked clearly strange and made a suspicious impression.

According to Gordienko, the trial was held “with a strong accusatory bias,” and the judge tried to discredit defense experts. Smolnikov added that at the trial they even tried to question the methodology of the Ministry of Justice.

The next court hearing will take place on November 30.

The artist is being tried because of two posts on VKontakte, published under the pseudonym Pyotr Kakhovsky. They say that anarchist Mikhail Zhlobitsky committed a suicide bombing in the building of the Arkhangelsk FSB in 2018 due to repression and torture by security forces.

On May 11, 2021, Maxim Smolnikov’s house was searched in connection with the case of justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). The next day, the artist was in pre-trial detention; in July, he received a preventive measure. On September 6, 2021, the court will release the artist from the pre-trial detention center and impose on him a ban on certain actions: traveling outside of Khabarovsk, leaving the house from 11:00 pm to 6:00 am and using the Internet.

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On the morning of October 31, 2018, in the FSB building in Arkhangelsk, local resident Mikhail Zhlobitsky bombed. Three employees were injured, the young man himself died. A few minutes before the explosion, a message about the explosion appeared in the telegram open chat “Rech Rebelshchika”. In connection with this event, a criminal case of terrorism was opened.

blew up - OVD-Info about more than 40 criminal cases of “justification of terrorism” initiated in the wake of the explosion in the Arkhangelsk FSB Directorate. known