Former operator of Navalny's Arkhangelsk headquarters was transferred to the Kirov pre-trial detention center

Former cameraman and photographer of Navalny's Arkhangelsk headquarters, Ruslan Akhmetshin, was transported from Arkhangelsk to pre-trial detention center-1 in Kirov. A local social activist reported this to OVD-Info.

On October 26, the Arkhangelsk Regional Court sentenced Akhmetshin to two and a half years in a penal settlement. In addition, the convict was ordered to pay 180 thousand rubles for the work of expert psychologists and historians as part of the investigation into the case.

sentenced 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) due to comments on VKontakte. According to investigators, he 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 occupied Poland together.

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 demanded the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which asked to recover 766 thousand rubles from nine people. According to security officials, these are the expenses the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs incurred due to overtime work during protests in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23 and 31, 2021.

was satisfied - 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