On April 26, 41-year-old journalist Sergei Karelin was detained in the Murmansk region in connection with the case of cooperation with FBK. This was reported by the Guardian. and Associated Press , Mediazona drew attention to the publication.
One of the courts in the Murmansk region arrested Karelin on April 27. It is not known for certain under what article the case was opened, but it is probably about participation in an extremist community (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code): it is under this article that most of the defendants in the FBK case are being prosecuted, including the person arrested in the same day of Reuters producer Konstantin Gabov.
According to the security forces, the man participated in the preparation of materials for the Navalny LIVE YouTube channel.
The Associated Press also published photographs of the man standing in the court's fish tank. According to the Guardian, Karelin collaborated with the Associated Press and Deutsche Welle.
The news included clarifications about the article that Karelin is charged with.
- On April 27, Reuters news service producer Konstantin Gabov was arrested in Moscow. A case was opened against him under the article on participation in an extremist community (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). According to security officials, he participated in the preparation of materials for the Navalny LIVE YouTube channel.
- At the end of September 2021, the Investigative Committee announced that a case had been opened against Navalny and his associates, as well as other activists, regarding an extremist community (Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). Later it became known that several other cases filed earlier against the politician and several key figures in his structures were added to this case. Currently, within the framework of one case, in addition to the article on the extremist community, there are also articles on the financing of extremist activities (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code), on the legalization of funds acquired by other persons through criminal means (clause “b” of Part 4 Article 174 of the Criminal Code), on the creation of a non-profit organization that infringes on the personality and rights of citizens (Part 2 of Article 239 of the Criminal Code) and on the involvement of minors in dangerous activities (paragraphs “a”, “c” of Part 2 of Article 151.2 of the Criminal Code) ). In August 2023, Navalny was sentenced to 19 years in a special regime colony under articles on financing extremism (Part 2 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code), on the creation of an extremist community (Part 3 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code) and on calls for extremism (Part 2 of Art. 280 CC). On February 16, the politician died in the colony.
- As part of the case about an extremist community, in January 2023, ex-employees of Navalny’s headquarters in Arkhangelsk, Yegor Butakov and Elizaveta Bychkova, were sentenced to a year of restriction of freedom. In June, the ex-coordinator of Navalny’s Ufa headquarters, Liliya Chanysheva, was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, and at the same time, another person involved in this case, Rustem Mulyukov, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison, who was refused to be released in December, despite group I disability. In July, the former coordinator of the headquarters in Barnaul, Vadim Ostanin, was sentenced to nine years in a general regime colony, and in August, the former technical director of Navalny LIVE, Daniel Kholodny, was sentenced to eight years in a general regime colony. The politician's lawyers Alexey Liptser, Vadim Kobzev and Igor Sergunin are under arrest, as well as the defendants in the case of Navalny's "underground headquarters" Ivan Trofimov and Alina Olekhnovich. In December, the former coordinator of the Tomsk headquarters, Ksenia Fadeeva, was sentenced to nine years in prison. In October 2022, Olga Shkolina, a volunteer of this headquarters, was arrested in absentia ; she left the country in the summer. In addition, in December of the same year, the former coordinator of Navalny’s Irkutsk headquarters, Zakhar Sarapulov, was sentenced to a year of suspended imprisonment.