In Russia, a criminal case has been initiated on the case of suicide in a “confidential body” with foreigners.
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A Russian citizen in Moscow under an article about appearance or an organization directed against the security of the country. This is the first publicly known case of initiation of a case under an article added to the Criminal Code in the summer of the year.
“In relation to Pishchulin Pavel Andreevich, a measure of restraint was chosen in the video review under supervision until December 14,” the press service of the Lefortovo Court of Moscow reported.
Pischulin is charged with article 275.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (cooperation on a confidential basis with an external form, an international or foreign border without signs of treason). The article provides for punishment from three to eight years in prison.
The case is classified, its plot is unknown, follows from Interfax reports.
TASS, citing a source, writes that the insult was previously convicted of extremism.
As the BBC was chosen, this description is followed by the head of the little-known left-wing patriotic organization “All-Russian Social Unity” (one of its goals is to rename the Russian Federation into the Republic of Russia).
Earlier, Pischulin was convicted for atheistic and anti-church posts on VKontakte, he admitted his guilt, the cases were considered in a special order. At the beginning of 2022, he was excluded from the list of terrorists and extremists.
“New forms of criminal activity”
The article, according to which Prishchulin was arrested, appeared in the Criminal Code only in June of the year – after the adoption of the bill on “new forms of criminal activity and threats to state security.”
“Cooperation on a confidential basis with foreign foreign inclusions” although included in the article of the Criminal Code on treason, in fact, the case is not treason either. However, contacts in “facilitating” activities “obviously directed” against state security can be imprisoned for up to eight years.
By investigation and private organizations, the authors mean those cases that occur in the special services, as well as private and intelligence companies, the RBC edition clarifies.
The investigation will need to find out that the specific organization of the detention of the special services of a foreign state – identifying the person guilty under this article is impossible. However, in practice this is proved by a certificate from a number of lines of the FSB, human rights activists note.
To eliminate the need for a new article, it is necessary to “voluntarily and consistently” inform the authorities about such relations (if “no actions have already been taken to complete the assignment received”).
The rule on a “confidential body” is spelled out as vaguely as possible, which it is possible that it can mean, for example, the preparation of reports for international organizations, Galina Arapova, head of the Center for the Protection of Media Rights, told the BBC (she and her organization of representatives in Russia ” foreign agents).
If for participation in the activities of a special organization of a person, first of all, there is an administrative danger, and in the event of a repeated violation, only criminal cases are initiated, then under the next article on the outcome, a criminal one will immediately begin, and it will become aggravated.
Who is Pischulin
Judging by the page in social networks, 39-year-old Pavel Pischulin with the same date of birth, which was indicated in the register of Rosfinmonitoring, is a resident of Penza. On his page on the social network, Pischulin tells about himself that he had feelings under part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Public calls for extremist activity using the Internet”) for two years probation and under part 1 of article 148 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“insulting the feelings of believers”) was sentenced to 180 hours of compulsory labor.
The Volovo case on “public appeals” under Article 280 of the Criminal Code was initiated against him in 2019. This is stated in decide of the Penza Ocean, which in January 2020 fined Pischulin for 2 months for “mass distribution of extremist materials” (video file “Primorskie partisans”). There is no information about the sentencing for public calls to action.
On October 14, Pischulin published a post about the terrorist initiative in Russia. In the post, he listed the articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on the description of planning, preparation, unleashing and waging an aggressive war, mercenarism and acts of international terrorism and warning that “Kremlin criminals” are inciting such acts.
At the same time, in the information about himself, Pischulin calls the liver organs and the prosecutor’s office: “If I have signs of extremism, it is necessary to quickly identify me about this in order to directly extract this content (text, photo, video, audio files).” Pischulin warns that he cannot independently evaluate or others’ statements about extremism. “I am a law-abiding citizen who does not intentionally commit socially dangerous acts, including cases and offenses of an extremist nature.”