The Moscow City Court has received the materials of the case against the politician Alexei Navalny on the creation of an extremist community, Mediazona writes.
Later, the card of the oppositionist’s case was updated in court – instead of one episode, six articles appeared in it:
- calls for extremism (two episodes, parts 1 and 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation)
- creation of an NPO that infringes on the rights of citizens (part 2 of article 239 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation)
- financing of extremism (Part 2 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation)
- creation of an extremist community (part 3 of article 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation)
- involvement of minors in the commission of dangerous acts (paragraphs “a”, “b” and “c” of part 2 of article 151.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation)
- rehabilitation of Nazism (Part 3 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
The date of the hearing of the case is not indicated in the court card. Judge Andrey Suvorov, who previously tried the espionage cases of Norwegian Frode Berg and former marine Paul Whelan, will consider the case.
On May 22, Navalny was sent to a punishment cell for the 16th time since the beginning of his term in the colony. The last time the oppositionist was placed in a punishment cell on May 11. In total, Navalny has spent more than 160 days in the ShIZO.
At the end of April, the politician announced that a new case “on terrorism” had been opened against him, and that he would be tried in a military court.
Alexei Navalny, after being poisoned by Novichok and being treated in Berlin, returned to his homeland, where he was detained right at the border crossing at the airport and arrested. Navalny’s suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher case was replaced with a real one for not showing up at the inspection while he was in a coma and was being treated abroad. Immediately after his arrest and change of sentence, he was tried again – in the case of libel against a veteran who starred in a propaganda video for changing the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The politician called the participants in this video “corrupt lackeys.” Then Navalny was sentenced to a fine, and immediately after the trial, the criminal article was toughened for slandering veterans.
In March 2022, the Lefortovo Court of Moscow sentenced him to nine years in prison in a strict regime colony and a fine of 1.2 million rubles in a case of fraud and insulting a judge. The court found that Navalny and his colleagues from the FBK illegally collected donations and spent them on personal needs. Navalny denies his guilt and calls the case political. At the end of May, the oppositionist was charged with creating an “extremist community.”
