The Moscow Regional Court upheld the sentence of programmer Alexey Malyarevsky in the case of participation in the activities of an extremist community (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code) and its financing (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by SOTAvision.
In April, the Dolgoprudny City Court sentenced Malyarevsky to seven years in prison in the FBK donation case. The prosecutor had requested eight years in prison for the programmer.
At the appeal hearing, lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina noted that the punishment assigned to her client was comparable in severity to the sentences given to the FBK leaders. In her opinion, the court of first instance did not take into account mitigating circumstances: Malyarevsky had no criminal record, a higher education, a permanent place of work, awards and positive references.
Malyarevsky also called the sentence unreasonably harsh: for each of the articles imputed to him, the punishment exceeds two-thirds of the maximum term, and this violates the article on sentencing in the event of a violation of a pre-trial cooperation agreement (Article 63.1 of the Criminal Code). The programmer noted that he cooperated with the investigation and admitted his guilt.
According to investigators, the young man transferred $150 to an "extremist" community and also hung leaflets in Moscow about Moscow City Court judge Andrei Suvorov, who sentenced Alexei Navalny to 19 years in prison. At the same time, he was initially charged with participation in an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code), but the charge was later reclassified.
Malyarevskywas sent to a pretrial detention center on October 20, 2023. A month and a half before his arrest, Malyarevsky went to Manezhnaya Square with a poster reading "Freedom for Navalny, freedom for political prisoners." Hewas detained , but soon released without a report.
- On June 9, 2021, the Moscow City Court recognized the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), the Citizens' Rights Defense Foundation (CRDF), and Alexei Navalny's headquarters as "extremist organizations." The appeals court later upheld this decision. After that, supporters of the opposition politician began leaving Russia en masse.
- At the end of September 2021, the Investigative Committee reported that a case on an extremist community (Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code) had been opened against Navalny and his associates, as well as other activists. It later became known that several more cases, previously opened against the politician and several key figures in his structures, had been added to this case. Currently, within the framework of one case, in addition to the article on an extremist community, there are also articles on the financing of extremist activity (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code), on the legalization of funds acquired by other persons by criminal means (subparagraph "b" of Part 4 of 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 (subparagraphs "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 penal 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 Article 280 of the Criminal Code). On February 16, the politician died in the colony.
- In January 2023, as part of the case of the extremist community, former employees of Navalny's headquarters in Arkhangelsk Yegor Butakov and Elizaveta Bychkova were sentenced to one year of restricted freedom. In June, former coordinator of Navalny's Ufa headquarters Liliya Chanysheva was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, at the same time two and a half years in prison were assigned to another defendant in this case, Rustem Mulyukov, who was refused release in December, despite his first group of disability. In July, the sentence was handed down to former coordinator of the headquarters in Barnaul Vadim Ostanin - nine years in a general regime colony, and in August, 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, as well as defendants in the case of "Navalny's underground headquarters" Ivan Trofimov and Alina Olekhnovich are under arrest. In December, the former coordinator of the Tomsk headquarters, Ksenia Fadeeva, was sentenced to nine years in prison. In October 2022, a volunteer of this headquarters, Olga Shkolina, 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 given a year of suspended imprisonment.