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Resistance. Faces
We represent several of our fellow citizens who have undergone criminal or administrative persecution for their views after February 24
In 2022, repressions turned into the main “scraping” of the Russian political system. According to OVD-Info*, the country recorded a record for the detention of protesters over the past 10 years. Almost 20 thousand people were persecuted as a civil position, hundreds of criminal cases have been instituted, more than 210 thousand sites were blocked. We represent those who could not silently observe what is happening in the country and in Ukraine. And therefore was in prison for his beliefs.
Alexey Navalny
Two years have already passed since Alexei Navalny returned to Russia after trying to poison him and was detained by the authorities at Sheremetyevo Airport directly at border control. Then, rallies were held in support of the opposition that ended in arrests and criminal cases. Many of his associates were also in prison or left Russia.The most to Navalny was first replaced the conditional punishment with the real, far -fetched case, "Yves Rocher." Then - they sentenced to “fraud” with the donations of voters and disrespect for the court. As a result - 9 years of strict regime.
But they did not stop there - several more accusations were brought to the opposition policy, the cases of which are carried out in sluggish regime, so that, most likely, to manifest itself closer to the end of the imprisonment. For example, the case of the creation of an extremist community is still being investigated. The authorities clearly demonstrates: no one is going to release Navalny.
In the Vladimir IK-6 in Melekhovo, he is regularly sent to a schizo for trifles like an unbuttoned button on a prison robe or for being washed half an hour earlier than the prescribed time. The other day, Navalny said that he had been in a schizo for the 11th time. In this "prison in prison" he spent more than 100 days. Civil doctors are not allowed to him, despite the seriously worsening health, and actually do not provide adequate medical care.
He is simply killed.
Lilia Chanysheva*
Chanysheva left her career in the large consulting company Deloitte to head the headquarters of Navalny (the organization was recognized by the extremist authorities and its activities were banned in the Russian Federation) in Ufa, when in 2017 the politician nominated for the presidency of Russia.Before heading the headquarters, Lilia has already gained fame in the region: she had investigations about corruption, supported protests against the development of Shikhan Kustau - later this district was officially assigned the status of a specially protected natural area. Local authorities did not allow her to elections to the City Council of Ufa.
After the Moscow City Court recognized the headquarters of Navalny in April 2021 in April 2021, the opposition associates announced their closure. Then many coordinators of the headquarters hastily left the country, and of those who stayed, more than a dozen were under investigation. But even then, Chanysheva flatly refused to go abroad and was among the persecuted.
She was accused of cooperation with an extremist organization and arrested in November 2021. The investigation in her case is completed, she is still in the Moscow pre-trial detention center and is waiting for the court.
Alexey Gorinov
61-year-old municipal deputy Alexei Gorinov was born and raised in Moscow. He was engaged in scientific and social activities, taught. He regularly came to police branches and courts to detained activists and helped them as a public defender. In 2017, Gorinov’s self -nominee was elected as a deputy of the Krasnoselsky Council of Deputies of Moscow. It was the discussion of the plan of the “leisure work” of this council, held on March 15, 2022, that became the reason for its criminal prosecution.Gorinov considered it inappropriate to hold a competition of children's drawing on June 1, when his own state passes on the territory of a neighboring state. The municipal deputy Elena Kotenochkin agreed with him.
On April 25, criminal cases of military "fakes" were instituted against them. Kotenochkina managed to go abroad (she was arrested in absentia and put on the international wanted list), Gorinov remained - and after a few days he was sent to a pre -trial detention center.
According to the investigation, for example, “knowingly false information”, which he allegedly distributed, refers, for example, what he called the “special operation” forbidden word and made a number of other statements that we cannot quote due to military censorship introduced in Russia.
For statements at a meeting of the Council of Deputies Gorinov, they were sentenced to seven years in general regime. In September, the Moscow City Court reduced his appointed deadline - as a mockery - for one month. Currently, Gorinov is serving a sentence in the Vladimir colony in Pokrov. He is sick.
Dmitry Talents
Last summer, Dmitry Talentov, President of the Lawyer Chamber of Udmurtia and one of the defenders of Ivan Safronov, convicted of 22 years for the "Gosizman", was detained due to several posts on social networks. He was taken to Moscow from Izhevsk and detained. Three episodes of “public distribution of knowingly false information” about the army’s actions are charged with a lawyer. By September, the accusation was buried, adding two more episodes on charges of arousing hatred. Talent's case was transferred by jurisdiction to Udmurtia, the lawyer was sent to their homeland. The trial of charges is now being held in the Zavyalovsky District Court of Udmurtia.Without waiting for the court decision, the lawyer chamber of the republic without notification deprived the talent of the head of the head. “I admit that what happened affected my feelings. I was in the post of President of the Chamber for more than 20 years. I think that this gave me the moral right to at least know about the “plans” of colleagues regarding the fate of the entire corporation and my fate, ”the lawyer's published appeal said.
Ilya Yashin*
The opposition politician who gave the protest movement for more than 20 years of life, a friend of Boris Nemtsov and the municipal deputy, who won the elections in the Krasnoselsky district of Moscow in 2017, Ilya Yashin fundamentally did not want to leave the country. He did not leave Russia even after administrative affairs were brought to him several times for the most formal reasons. Even then, it was obvious that a criminal case was being prepared against him.Yashin continued to talk about what was happening on his YouTube channel. For one of these streams - about the events in the Ukrainian buch - the case of the spread of military “fakes” based on political hatred was initiated on Yashin and sentenced to eight and a half years in prison. The defense of the opposition filed a complaint about the verdict that has not yet entered into legal force. However, Yashin still, without waiting for a meeting in the Moscow City Court, was transferred to the colony. Now he is in the pre-trial detention center-2 Udmurtia.
Vladimir Kara-Murza Kara-Murza often traveled to the United States, was engaged in the compilation of the Magnitsky List and spoke to Western politicians. His activity was greatly annoyed by the security forces. In 2015 and 2017, the politician got to the hospital with symptoms of poisoning. Investigators from Bellingcat found out that the FSB officers followed the poisoning after him.
Last spring, Kara-Murza returned to Russia. Then, in April, he was arrested for an administrative offense for 15 days - supposedly for disobedience to the police, who guarded him near the house. Soon it became known about the criminal case. According to the SK, on March 15, 2022, during a speech in the House of Representatives of the state of Arizona Kara-Murza, “acting based on political hatred”, he distributed “obviously false information” about the Russian army.
While Vladimir was waiting for a court pre -trial detention center, he was charged with new charges. First - for participating in the work of an unwanted organization, and then "Gosisman" appeared.
Evgeny Roizman*
The former mayor of Yekaterinburg was one of the last famous opposition politicians who remained at large in Russia. He went to protests when they detained Navalny. After February 24, he refused to leave Russia and actively criticized the Russian authorities, publishing caustic comments on social networks. For one of these messages, he received an administrative fine for “disrespect for power”.Last spring, Roizman was fined several times for the "discrediting of the army." After that, at the end of August, he was already detained under a criminal article. The investigation appealed to the court with a petition for the arrest of a politician, but he was appointed a ban on certain actions. Now Roizman is waiting for the court: he is forbidden to use the Internet and visit public places.
Alexandra Skochilenko
The St. Petersburg artist and musician Alexander Skochilenko became one of the symbols of protest. After replacing the price tags in the St. Petersburg Perekrestok, it was detained with pacifist inscriptions and sent to a pre -trial detention center. In conclusion, the artist, who is seriously ill, sharply worsened the state of health. She was placed in a cell for 18 people, where Skochilenko was not provided with a special diet, which was prescribed to her by doctors, and the cellmates mocked her sophisticated above her.During these months, the courts repeatedly extended the guard of Skochilenko, although the defense asked for a softer extent, for example, about house arrest. The consideration of the case is now taking place in the Vasileostrovsky court of St. Petersburg. The prosecution and defense have already submitted their evidence in the process. In the near future, Skochilenko will interrogate in court and the parties will go to the debate. The girl is contained in the St. Petersburg SIZO-5 from April 13.
Vladimir Rumyantsev
The 61-year-old Rumyantsev from Vologda worked for 20 years with a stoker at the local machine-case, and after its closure-by a conductor in the city trolleybus. He participated in a few protests in his hometown. He also had his own amateur radio station, which worked with transmitters purchased on AliExpress.For the past eight years, Rumyantsev regularly went on the air and mainly set up Soviet songs. The signal of its radio station allowed to cover about two neighboring quarters.
After February 24, he began to pay more attention to political topics. Rumyantsev included neighbors with YouTube channels with opposition speakers, for example, the program of Ekaterina Schulman*. It seems that one of the neighbors wrote a denunciation of the former stoker in the police.
On July 15, he was sent to a pre -trial detention center for the military "fakes". The reason for criminal prosecution was not only Rumyantsev radio, but also his posts in social networks. His wall on VKontakte was a kind of combat leaf: he published news about his almost daily. The blush did not admit his guilt.
The prosecutor asked to condemn Rumyantsev to six years of imprisonment. However, the court sentenced him to the lower limit - three years in a general regime colony.
Dmitry Ivanov
Former fourth-year student of the faculty of computational mathematics and cybernetics of Moscow State University, author of the TELEGRAM channel “Protest MSU”, in which he wrote about social activism, conducted broadcasts from rallies and ships. In 2018, he, along with other students, opposed the installation of a fan zone on the territory of Moscow State University during the World Cup in Moscow. Then the group "Protest MSU" formed.Ivanov repeatedly advocated in support of political prisoners, went to single pickets, participated in shares in support of the defendants in the “new greatness”, the affairs of the “network” (the organization was recognized as terrorist and banned in the Russian Federation), Azat Miftakhov and many others.
Last year, Ivanov planned to pass the final exams and protect the diploma. But because of a series of administrative arrests, these plans could not come true. In early June, the case of the spread of “knowingly false information” about the Russian armed forces based on political hatred was initiated against Ivanov. The basis for criminal prosecution was the publication of the activist in the Telegram channel “Protest MSU”.
Since June 3, Ivanov has been in jail. His case is now being considered in the Timiryazevsky court of Moscow.
Mikhail Crieger
The Moscow Opposition activist, participated in protests for more than 15 years. For his position, including pacifist, he was repeatedly subjected to administrative arrests and fines. Also, activists of the pro -Kremlin movements attacked him several times. At the end of July, Krieger was arrested for 10 days due to stickers on the glasses of his car with the inscriptions “I am against Putin. I am for Navalny ”and“ Navalny is my president ”.In November, the activist detained the security forces in the case of “justification of terrorism” for his posts in social networks. Then he was detained. Later, he was weighted by the prosecution, adding an article on the initiation of hatred or enmity with the threat of violence. On December 19, the Cheremushkinsky court of the capital extended the preventive measure to Krieger, leaving in the pre-trial detention center-2.
Alisa Klimentova
The IT specialist from Tyumen became known throughout the country last fall, when she wrote “No * ” on the asphalt of the city square. The judge believed the author of the inscription - Alisa Klimentova: she insisted that the phrase “no wobble” was hiding behind the asterisk. The phrase instantly scattered over the Internet and became one of the most recognizable memes.But soon the police obtained a review of the court decision, and when repeated consideration of the administrative, Kliment was found guilty and set a fine of 30 thousand rubles. Literally in a day, the Tyumen helped her raise money to pay off the fine.
Olesya Krivtsova
Olesya Krivtsova studies at the Northern (Arctic) University in Arkhangelsk with a degree in “Communication with the Public”. In the spring, the girl was fined 30 thousand rubles under an administrative article on the “discredit” of the army due to the stiffening of pacifist leaflets. Later, the administrative turned into a criminal. On December 26, police officers broke into the Krivtsova apartment. The reason for the search was two criminal cases: the student was accused of justifying terrorism and “discrediting” the army. The accusations are based on its anti -war storis on Instagram (the social network belongs to META, whose activities are recognized as extremist) and the reposts of the records that the girl made in a closed chat of classmates.The court was suppressed with respect to Krivtsova two days after the search. Although the investigation asked to send a girl to a pre -trial detention center, the judge appointed her a ban on certain actions. A week later, the student was again detained on the street allegedly due to the fact that she was put on the wanted list. The investigation again insisted on arrest. The court again refused the UK, but the measure of restraint changed to house arrest.
Nikita Tushkanov
28-year-old Nikita Tushkanov originally from a small village of Chuprov in the north of Komi, where only 120 people live. He received a pedagogical education in Syktyvkar, after graduation he worked at the school of Mikuna (in the Ust-Vsky District of the Komi Republic).In March 2021, Tushkanov was fired from school for “immoral behavior” - in January he went to a single picket in support of Navalny. He appealed the dismissal in court, but could not recover at work. Tushkanov tried to get a teacher in schools in other regions of Komi and in neighboring regions - he was refused.
The teacher actively spoke in his social networks about the political situation in the country and the actions of the Russian military in Ukraine. He was repeatedly fined for anti -war statements and eventually opened a criminal case for the “discrediting” of the army. Then he was charged with another accusation - for the justification of terrorism. According to the FSB, he published posts on VKontakte for a few days after the explosion on the Crimean bridge (October 8–10), in which he "gave the explosion a positive assessment." Since November, Tushkanov has been in the SIZO-1 Syktyvkar.
Maria Ponomarenko
At the end of April 2022, the investigation sent to the pre -trial detention center an activist and journalist of the independent Barnaul edition of Rusnews Maria Ponomarenko. She was accused of spreading military "fakes". The investigation charges the journalist a post about those who died in the drama theater of Mariupol.Finding in the pre -trial detention center turned out to be a cruel method of pressure on Ponomarenko. She diagnosed a hysterical disorder of personality and claustrophobia, while she was not assisted in jail. As a result, unable to withstand the conditions of detention and news of the family problems, Maria tried to commit suicide, but, fortunately, she remained alive.
In mid-November, the court nevertheless changed the measure of restraint of Ponomarenko-from custody it was transferred to house arrest. But at the end of January, they returned to the pre-trial detention center because of the "unfavorable situation in the house."
Vsevolod Korolev
35-year-old opposition activist, poet, documentary, volunteer of the Observers of St. Petersburg. Several times he went to protest promotions in support of Navalny and against the special operation. On February 24, Korolev was detained at the Gostiny Dvor in St. Petersburg. The video with him got into the media and popular telegram channels, becoming viral.After the beginning, Korolev launched the project “Figure” on YouTube, where he managed to publish documentaries about the artist Sasha Skochilenko and journalist Maria Ponomarenko, who, as now the queen himself, are accused of spreading “fakes” about the Russian armed forces.
The case against the activist was opened in July last year. Then he was arrested. Since July 13, it has been detained in the SIZO "Crosses". The investigators blame the Queen to the publication of two posts on the VKontakte social network with supposedly inaccurate information. Since November, his case has been considered in the Vyborg court of St. Petersburg.
Co -defendants "Mayakovsky readings"
At the end of September 2022, police detained the administrative articles of the seven participants in Mayakovsky readings after they opposed partial mobilization. Later over the three activists - Alexander Menyukov, Artem Kamardin and his girlfriend Alexandra Popova - the security forces rushed into their apartments.Во время следственных действий Камардина, по его утверждению, пытали, снимая это на видео, которое потом показали его девушке. Над ней, по ее словам, также издевались в соседней комнате, били и угрожали изнасиловать.
В тот же день стало известно, что против Камардина и еще двух участников «Маяковских чтений» — Николая Дайнеко и Егора Штовбы — завели уголовное дело «о возбуждении ненависти или вражды с угрозой применения насилия». По версии следствия, они возбуждали ненависть в отношении «добровольческих вооруженных формирований «ЛНР» и «ДНР», когда читали стихи у памятника Маяковскому в Москве. 28 сентября Тверской суд Москвы заключил Камардина, Штовбу и Дайнеко под стражу.
Адвокат Камардина пытался обжаловать в суде действия силовиков во время обыска, но его заявление отклонили. Согласно формальному результату проверки Следственного комитета, «применение спецсредств проходило в рамках закона».
ЮЛИЯ ГАЛЯМИНА*
Одна из немногих оппозиционных политиков, которая также осталась в России после 24 февраля. В 2017 году Галямина стала муниципальным депутатом Тимирязевского совета Москвы. В 2019-м ее не зарегистрировали для участия в выборах в Мосгордуму. Она участвовала в митингах за допуск независимых кандидатов к выборам и акциях против изменений в Конституции. За это ее неоднократно штрафовали и арестовывали.В декабре 2020 года Галямину условно осудили по «дадинской» статье за «неоднократное нарушение правил проведения публичных акций», она лишилась мандата и потеряла возможность баллотироваться в органы власти.
Несмотря на давление властей, Галямина создала и запустила несколько общественных проектов: «Школа районной антикоррупции», «Фестиваль локальных медиа», «Школа местного самоуправления», «Земский съезд», «Мягкая сила» и другие.
5 марта 2022 года Галямина была арестована на 30 суток за призывы публично выражать свое отношение к спецоперации. В сентябре Минюст внес ее в реестр «иноагентов», а спустя четыре месяца за этот присвоенный «статус» активистку уволили с должности доцента института общественных наук РАНХиГС.