Evgeny Voluzhev
- Criminal Code
- Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Extremism cases
- Verdict
- Fine
- Date of verdict
- 2011-08-09
- Region
- Khabarovsk Krai
- City
- Khabarovsk
Case summary
On October 7, 2008, a search was carried out at the Khabarovsk National Bolshevik Evgeniy Voluzhev, during which one copy of the newspaper of different issues “Friend of the People”, a system unit and CDs were confiscated, a copy of the seizure protocol was not given; Voluzhev subsequently filed a complaint against an illegal search, but the court refused to consider it; On October 28, employees of the Organized Crime Control Department, who refused to identify themselves, detained Voluzhev as he left his lawyer’s office and took him to the Organized Crime Control Department, where he was forcibly photographed, searched and interrogated, all SMS messages and numbers from his mobile phone were copied; he was asked to voluntarily sign a cooperation agreement, after refusing, the Organized Crime Control Department officers began to threaten him; On May 14, 2009, officers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB came to Voluzhev’s apartment: it turned out that a criminal case had been opened against him under Article 282.2 (“Participation in the activities of an extremist organization”); Limonov's brochures "To My Supporters", letters from his comrades-in-arms from the pre-trial detention center, as well as 5 "Other Russia" stickers were confiscated; almost all office equipment, a system unit, 15 hard drives, 5 printers, CDs and other property were confiscated again; Voluzhev was given a recognizance not to leave; On June 2, 2009, Voluzhev was charged under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 CC; the basis for initiating a criminal case, based on the case materials, is the posting of opposition leaflets “at a time not established by the investigation, in a place not established by the investigation”; in early July, the National Bolsheviks of Komsomolsk-on-Amur Anton Lukin, Dmitry Voron and Alexander Voron were interrogated about Voluzhev by Khabarovsk security officers; the oppositionists, in particular, were asked: “Could you imagine that Voluzhev is a National Bolshevik?”; All of Evgeniy Voluzhev’s acquaintances were interrogated, whose contacts Evgeniy kept in the phone seized from him by the Organized Crime Control Department; On August 11, 2011, he was sentenced to a fine of 100 thousand rubles, but was released from punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations
Others charged under Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
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