Alexander Kryshka
Alexander Kryshka, born 2002, Chelyabinsk Oblast. Charges: Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of Alexander Kryshka”. Sentence (August 23, 2020): 2 years 6 months' suspended imprisonment. Status: at large.
In brief
Chelyabinsk Oblast · Chelyabinsk · Extremism cases, Cases related to mass actions
Sentence
2 years 6 months
suspended imprisonment
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
continued the activities of the National Bolshevik Party (NBP), which was recognised as an extremist organisation in 2007. According to the investigation, this activity was expressed, in particular, in the fact that on 25 April 2020 they attacked a monument to Czechoslovak legionnaires in Chelyabinsk, hitting it with a sledgehammer and unfurling a banner "You will answer for Konev!"; participated in an attempt to set fire to the building of the Prosecutor's Office of the Leninsky district of Chelyabinsk
Latest event
September 9, 2024 — removed from the rosfinmonitoring list
Timeline
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Persecution ends
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 2 years 6 months
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №7 (SIZO-7) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation
· Persecution begins
The case of Alexander Kryshka
Criminal case
The case of Alexander Kryshka
Thematic group: The case of the Chelyabinsk National Bolshevism supporters (nazbols)
Details and sources
Full summary
Detained on 8 June 2020 in front of the Prosecutor's Office of Leninsky District of Chelyabinsk during a rally against police abuse. On 10 June, taken into custody by court decision on charges of participation in the activities of an extremist organisation.
An operational experiment was conducted against Kryshka, as well as Golubev and Prosvirnin, who were detained together with him, with the participation of an embedded Center for Countering Extremism officer, according to the unregistered "Other Russia" ("Drugaya Rossiya"). They were detained near the building of the Prosecutor's Office of the Leninsky District of Chelyabinsk while "attempting to set the building on fire". The investigation called the evidence of the intention to set fire to the building the bottles with incendiary mixture and "NBP armbands" (National Bolshevik party) found at the scene. Two other people were detained together with them, who are listed in the case under changed surnames.
On 24 August it became known that Kryshka made an agreement with the investigation and confessed. He was sentenced to two and a half years of probation.
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