Vladimir Atamanchuk

Resident of Sochi. In March, Atamanchuk was arrested for 10 days under the article on organising a public event without submitting a notice (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences). On 8 September the court arrested Atamanchuk for five days under the article on disobedience to the demands of police officers (part 1 of article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences). Before that, he was held in a police station for more than a day, where the officers threatened him with a criminal case. The man told "Kavkazsky Uzel" that while he was in the special detention centre, law enforcers "came to his house and were searching for something". On 27 December Atamanchuk told "Kavkazsky Uzel" about pressure from the investigation and health problems. This information was confirmed by his lawyer Sergey Kostyuk. Thus, on 22 December the investigator handed him five summonses for interrogation at once - for 23, 24, 26, 27 and 28 December. On 29 December Atamanchuk fell ill in front of the police department building. He was taken away from there by ambulance and hospitalised in the city hospital No. 5 with a heart attack. In March 2023, Atamanchuk said that the investigator threatened to put him in the basement if he would defend himself and refuse to sign the documents required by the investigation. He also said that the investigator refused to issue an inventory of items returned after the search. Later, Atamanchuk also reported that the investigator, threatening to arrest him, forced him to collect the laptop, seized during the search, along with a mobile phone against a receipt, while the defendant claims that the phone does not belong to him. On 11 November 2023, the investigator announced Atamanchuk's dismissal of the case, at the same time informing him that a libel case had been opened against the Sochi resident because of the leaflets he had put in mailboxes in the entrances of two houses on 4 September 2022. On 12 April 2024, Atamanchuk was sentenced in the libel case to 240 hours of community work. In July 2024, it became known that a case on disrespect of court was initiated against Atamanchuk following a complaint by the victim in the libel case. On 13 December 2024, he was sentenced in this case to 160 hours of community work.