The FSB is conducting searches in at least six cities in the case against nationalist Vladimir Basmanov

In Syktyvkar, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Saratov, searches are underway in the case against the nationalist Vladimir Basmanov (Potkin). reports SOTA .

According to the text of the search warrant, against Basmanov "and other unidentified persons" the FSB in the Komi Republic opened a criminal case under three articles of the Criminal Code at once - justification of terrorism (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), incitement of hatred (clause "c" part 2 Article 282 of the Criminal Code) and organization of the activities of an extremist organization and participation in such (parts 1 and 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

In Syktyvkar, the former leader of the nationalist organization "Frontier of the North" Alexei Kolegov was searched, in Saratov - the leader of the Black Front - Saratov movement Andrei Martsev. In addition, the security forces also came with a search in this case to the Saratov apartment of the emigrated National Bolshevik Mikhail Pulin, and in Nizhny Novgorod - to the apartment of his wife Ekaterina Maksimova.

Maksimova told reporters that during the search, they seized the badge of the Revolutionary Workers' Party, stickers in support of the prisoners of the New Greatness and Come to the March of Dissent, party card of the National Bolshevik Party in the name of her husband dated August 20, 2005, signed by Eduard Limonov, Alexei Makarov's book "Idealism-2005", a letter from political prisoner anarchist Ilya Roman to Mikhail Pulin, and a letter that Pulin wrote to her from prison.

The people who were searched told SOTA that they considered it an “act of intimidation”: the security forces invaded their homes through windows and broke down doors, and asked vague questions during the investigation.

19:04 A search was also held at the organizer of the "Russian Marches" in Pskov, Georgy Pavlov, according to the telegram channel of the movement. The security forces confiscated all the equipment from the man, and then took him for interrogation. After that, he did not get in touch.

April 26 It became known that on April 19, searches also took place in Moscow at the homes of Vyacheslav Korneev and Georgy Shishkov. Since then, their whereabouts are unknown, the men do not get in touch. It is reported by Avtozak LIVE.

May 9 Georgy Shishkov's location is still unknown. After the search, which took place on April 19, he did not get in touch with either relatives or friends. This was reported to OVD-Info by an associate of Shishkov.

He added that Vyacheslav Korneev, who had also not contacted earlier, was found and is at large. He is on trial as a witness.

April 13 It became known that on April 10, searches also took place in the homes of Mikhail Fedulov and a former supporter of Ivan's movement in Moscow. In St. Petersburg, investigative measures were taken by Natalia L. and Darya I. All of them are in the status of witnesses.

The headline of the news was changed after the appearance of information about searches in Pskov and St. Petersburg.

• Vladimir Basmanov (Potkin) founder of the Nation and Freedom Committee, an association of Russian nationalists who opposed the war in Ukraine. In 2020, the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court recognized the organization as extremist and banned its activities.
• Mikhail Pulin is an activist of the Association of Popular Resistance, who left Russia in the summer of 2020 after searches at the organization's headquarters. In 2010, he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison because of a fight in which he and several other National Bolsheviks participated. HRC "Memorial" recognized him as a political prisoner. At one of the hearings in the case, Pulin was brought from the pre-trial detention center with a broken head and a broken nose. His wife Ekaterina Maksimova participated in the work of the Nizhny Novgorod Political Cross, an organization that helped detainees at rallies.
• From 1998 to 2005, the Ministry of Justice denied registration to the National Bolshevik Party five times. In 2007, the court, at the suit of the prosecutor's office, recognized the NBP as an extremist organization and liquidated it; Now the party is banned in Russia.