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"No. I stay "
In St. Petersburg, they are judged by a person who was ready to pay his freedom in order to ensure that people receive not only official information
The trial of the documentary director, poet, philosopher 35-year-old Vsevolod Korolev began in St. Petersburg in the beginning of this week (November 28). He is accused of publicly spreading fakes about the actions of the Russian army in Ukraine. The criminal case against Vsevolod is the third of the eight in the northern capital under the new article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Public distribution under the guise of reliable messages of obviously false information about the use of the RF Armed Forces”, which has reached the court (also the cases of priest John Kurmoyarov and the 28-year-old Petersburger Viktoria Petrova) are being considered in St. Petersburg courts). The queen, like the rest of the accused, faces up to 15 years in prison.
Almost fifty people came to support Vsevolod for the first meeting in the Vyborg District Court of St. Petersburg, not all of them were familiar with each other, but all of them are not indifferent to the fate of the accused. Korolev knew some for a long time, with others he made friends only in the spring in protest rally (he participated in all) and after them, during the serving of administrative arrest in the insulator. Indifferent people - this is what those who came to court call themselves. An indifferent person, according to friends and relatives, has always been Seva.
“The main tragedy that has occurred with Russia over the past twenty years is in mass disappearance of critical thinking people,” Vsevolod explained.
- Such people are able to believe in anything. In any content that we have the opportunity to observe on Russian TV for several years. If suddenly, with my posts, I can reach up to two, three, four people - this is already good.
From the first day of the special operation, Vsevolod posted posts and made reposts on his personal page on VKontakte. Among the readers of Korolev were those who shared his views and those who sharply condemned. Friends and acquaintances with skepticism treated his attempts to change the consciousness of users of the VKontakte network, but understood what was moving them.
- In our current realities, any political action is heroism, but an important question - what is it motivated? - argues a close friend of Vsevolod Dmitry Vasiliev. - Seva made posts on the topic of Ukraine in VKontakte before the arrest and motivated it like this: in VKontakte he has an audience. People read it. He does not want to lose this site and part with this audience. The audience is not political there. Seva, laying out something political in the “VK”, hoped to expand her in the other direction, give her objective information, one way or another, to project her personal position on her and somehow influence her.
Korolev prepared and published a whole treatise in VK about what internal problems in the country need to be solved.
At the end of last year, Vsevolod was seriously interested in documentary cinema. On the same site, on the VKontakte social network, the director began to lay out his work.
“Seva was deeply plunged into a variety of spheres and grabbed everything very quickly,” Dmitry Vasiliev continues. -Over the past six months, he has become a documentary director. The first film about the poet and journalist Tatyana Voltskaya* ( recognized in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent. - N.P. ) was difficult for him, he prepared him for a long time. And the next two films about the first arrested in St. Petersburg under Art. 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - an artist, musician, video operator Alexander Skochilenko (“Sasha, we are with you”) and journalist Maria Ponomarenko (“Cold May”) - very quickly came out. Recently, Vsevolod has prepared a national documentary ribbon about all activists. The materials are already shifted, but Seva did not manage to reduce them before the arrest.
According to friends and acquaintances, Korolev from the very beginning understood that he was playing with fire, publishing facts, opinions, reasoning that frankly contradicting official messages in “VK”. It was not a secret for him that the VK today was a very vulnerable and unreliable platform.
“Seva suggested that“ VKontakte ”will sooner or later come to him,” says the Korolev friend, psychologist Leonid Tsoi. - I have repeatedly told him that it was necessary to take at least minimal precautions. But he, understanding all the risks, consciously went to them. Such ordinary heroism. Repeatedly, I advised north to leave Russia. But he replied: “No. I stay. " It was his choice.
“At some point, I faced the question that maybe just take and go abroad,” Vsevolod admitted in one of his posts, “but I then decided that it was not good to leave when everything was bad in the country.
I share the country and the state. And this country remains my country. Now she is sick, it is hard for her, but sooner or later everything will work out. ”
On the morning of July 12, the queen came to the queen for a search and arrest. As follows from the indictment, on April 19, law enforcement agencies had claims to two copyright posts of the director, posted in the VK on March 15 and April 12. Allegedly, they contained fake information about the army of the Russian Federation. Meanwhile, the criminal case against Korolev, according to the Main Directorate of the IC of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg, was opened on July 11.
The press service of the New "News did not answer the question: what did the investigators have been waiting for for three months? However, it is for this reason that the crime is now considered to be "lasting."
The defense of the accused is protected.
“I, as a qualified lawyer, disagree that this crime is lasting,” the lawyer of Vsevolod Maria Zyryanova insists. - The publication of post on the Internet is an action that ends at the time of publication. Then nothing happens to this action. The composition is over. Otherwise, by analogy, it turns out that a person who took a bribe and wears it in a pocket commits a crime throughout the time that wears money. This is not so.
Disagreement with the qualification of a crime as a priest is not the only objection to the defense of the Korolev. On November 28, in court, the accused’s lawyer filed a motion to return the case to the prosecutor’s office due to the fact that in the process of preliminary investigation, unheard of violations were committed.
- The queen is charged with two publications on the VKontakte social network - from March 15 and from April 12. However, these days were different editions of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: on March 15 - initial, on April 12 - a new edition, which entered into force on April 5, explains Maria Zyryanova. - Both posts are charged as one action, but the responsibility under this article at different periods of time provided for a different one. It is not clear to us how the qualification of Vsevolod’s actions is chosen? And since it is not clear to us, then, therefore, we do not know how to defend ourselves. And the violation of the right to defense is unacceptable upon the charge and is the basis for the return of the case to the prosecutor's office.
The state prosecutor from the prosecutor's office of the Vyborg district of St. Petersburg could not immediately answer the lawyer. I asked for time to familiarize yourself with documents and preparation. Judge of the Vyborg District Court Marina Goryacheva postponed the consideration of the Korolev case until December 15.