On December 7, the Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg extended the detention of local local historian Dmitry Vitushkin until January 12, 2024. This was reported by the telegram channel of the man’s support group.
A criminal case under articles on the dissemination on the Internet of knowingly false information about the activities of the USSR during the Second World War (clause “c” of Part 2 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) and about insulting the memory of defenders of the Fatherland (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) against Vitushkin launched in October. Then they came to the man and searched him.
The reason for the criminal prosecution was a post in the group administrated by local historians on VKontakte “Ingermanlandia,” which was seen as discrediting the liberation of Leningrad from the siege, as well as “falsification of historical facts.”
You can support a man by writing him a letter through the services "FSIN-letter " or Zonatelecom :
FKU SIZO-1 Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia "Crosses".196 655, St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region, Kolpino, Kolpinskaya st., 9
Vitushkin Dmitry Alexandrovich, born December 5, 1983.
- 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, 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 Research Center, many cases under Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code are initiated unlawfully and should be classified under other articles of the Criminal Code or resolved within the framework of civil rather than criminal proceedings.