Shendakov sentenced to imprisonment

In February 2023, the court replaced the suspended sentence for a real participant in the Russian Marches, Mikhail Shendakov.

On February 1, 2023, the Krasnogorsk City Court replaced retired colonel and activist Mikhail Shendakov with a suspended sentence due to the video “Surkov promised war to Donbass!” to two and a half years of a real term of imprisonment.

Recall that the colonel was detained on January 31. He is being held in a temporary detention center in Krasnogorsk, then they plan to transfer him to SIZO-2 in the Moscow Region in Volokolamsk.

In 2022, Mikhail Shendakov was twice brought to administrative responsibility for discrediting the army (part 1 of article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). On October 28, the court fined him 30,000 rubles because of Shendakov's publications in Odnoklassniki. On November 23, another administrative punishment was imposed on him. Administrative violations can be used as a reason to replace a suspended sentence with a real one.

Recall that on February 2, 2021, the Krasnogorsk City Court of the Moscow Region found the activist and Colonel of the Armed Forces in the reserve Mikhail Shendakov guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred towards a social group) and Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism on the Internet) and sentenced him to two and a half years probation for the video “Surkov promised war to Donbass.” In November 2021, in the case of inciting hatred with the threat of violence (clause “a”, part 2, article 282 of the Criminal Code) for the video “ Colonel Shendakov told a joke about the National Guard” . The Krasnogorsk city court found him guilty and sentenced him to 3 years of probation.

On February 20, 2023, another meeting is scheduled to replace another conditional sentence with a real one due to the verdict about recording the video “Colonel Shendakov told a joke about the National Guard.”

On October 9, 2019, the Krasnogorsk City Court of the Moscow Region held Shendakov liable under Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (inciting hatred) - the court fined him 10 thousand rubles for his speech “Chechens and Ingush, kill each other” (paragraph 4995 of the Federal List of Extremist Materials ) . According to the website of the Krasnogorsk city court, Shendakov was again brought to justice under Art. 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses on March 2, 2020.

Shendakov repeatedly participated in the Moscow "Russian Marches" (in 2017 , 2018 and 2019 ).

Sources

• The examination found "persistent delusional ideas" in Colonel Shendakov, he is threatened with compulsory treatment // OVD-news. March 24, 2023
• Colonel Mikhail Shendakov's probation was replaced because of a YouTube video with a real one // OVD-info. 2023. February 2.