In 2023, criminal cases were opened against five “citizens of the USSR” from the Samara region for an extremist organization. This was reported by Volga News and the SOVA Research Center .
N. Rukavishnikova, Ovchinnikov, Sintsov and Gainutdinov are charged with participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).
Another “citizen of the USSR,” Izilya Afanasyeva, is considered the organizer of the cell; She is charged with articles on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and inciting hatred (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code). against her A case was opened in November 2022, and she was detained in February 2023.
Afanasyeva and Ovchinnikov are under house arrest, and the rest are in pre-trial detention.
Some of the defendants in the case were assigned a psychiatric examination at the National Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Narcology named after. Serbsky, presumably, which is why the case materials were transferred to Moscow. Afanasyeva has already passed the examination; she was declared healthy.
- “Citizens of the USSR” is a movement uniting fighters for the restoration of the rights of citizens of the USSR. Followers of the organization believe that the Union continues to exist, and the Russian Federation is a “trading company.” Some of the participants in “Citizens of the USSR” refuse any ties with Russia as a state, for example, they do not sign any documents and notify local authorities of the need to vacate their posts. Supporters of Citizens of the USSR face various forms of pressure from the authorities, and some of their communities have been recognized as extremist organizations.