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| Two residents of Tyrnyauz complained about the searches in the case of extremism |
| 2023-03-12 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] Residents of Tyrnyauz Larisa Baragunova and Irina Vorozhbenko sent a complaint to the presidential envoy in the North Caucasus Federal District about searches in their apartments. Security officials confiscated phones and documents, explaining this by investigating a case of extremism, they said. Larisa Baragunova and Irina Vorozhbenko, who live in Tyrnyauz, on March 10 visited the reception of the plenipotentiary representative of the President of Russia in the North Caucasus Federal District. There they filed statements that on March 7 police officers had searched their apartments, both women told the " Caucasian Knot " correspondent. Larisa Baragunova said that at seven o'clock in the morning on March 7 security officials came to her with a decision of the Nalchik City Court to conduct a home inspection. “A group of men came to my house and introduced themselves as police officers. They showed their IDs and immediately hid them. city court to inspect my apartment. When asked what they would look for, one of the employees explained that I was suspected of extremism," Baragunova said. The woman explained that four years ago she created a branch of the public organization Trade Union Union SSR, which, according to Baragunova, is engaged in protecting the rights of citizens. The organization consists of about 100 residents of Tyrnauz and adjacent villages, while the organization is not registered with the tax authorities. According to Larisa Baragunova, 95 people have drawn up notarized powers of attorney, according to which she represents their interests in courts and authorities. During the search, they seized her computer, telephone, as well as documents of the organization, including powers of attorney from members of the organization. Irina Vorozhbenko told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that she is also a member of this public organization and believes that she remains a citizen of the USSR, since she was born in this country, and "no one asked her consent to the destruction of the Soviet Union." According to Irina Vorozhbenko, she did not want to let the security forces into the apartment for a long time and tried to film what was happening on the phone, but one of the officers took her phone, which was later seized during the search. In addition to the phone, a certificate of citizenship was confiscated from Vorozhbenko, she said. The woman noted that, despite persistent requests, she did not receive a copy of the court order, she was only given the opportunity to familiarize herself with it. The ruling, according to Irina Vorozhbenko, indicated that she was suspected under articles on extremism using the Internet, in fraud by a group of persons by prior agreement and in the creation of a non-profit organization or a structural subdivision of an organization whose activities are associated with inciting citizens to refuse to perform civil duties (Part 2 of Article 239 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Part 2 of Article 239 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Creation of a non-profit organization that infringes on the personality and rights of citizens) provides for up to six years in prison. Larisa Baragunova suggested that she could attract the attention of the police by standing up for an 80-year-old grandmother, whom neighbors are trying to evict from her apartment to a nursing home. According to Baragunova, having learned about this situation, she "immediately wrote" a statement to the prosecutor's office. In turn, Irina Vorozhbenko said that she contacted the police in connection with a conflict with the leadership of the kindergarten where her child goes, because of her refusal to pay the parental fee. As a result of the conflict, she was forbidden to take her child to the institution. “On this occasion, I wrote a statement to the police,” Vorozhbenko said. On the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Kabardino-Balkaria, as of 19.40 Moscow time, there is no information about the criminal case, which was told by residents of Tyrnyauz. On the website of the Nalchik City Court in the sections "Criminal cases" and "Proceedings on the basis of materials" there is also no information about the criminal case. Recall that people who consider themselves citizens of the USSR are an informal community, they unite in various organizations , human rights activist Alexander Verkhovsky told the "Caucasian Knot" on March 6. "These are different people who believe that the USSR continues to legally exist, while the Russian Federation, on the contrary, does not. They unite in different organizations. From time to time, these organizations are also divided into parts," he said. According to the human rights activist, several organizations of those who consider themselves citizens of the USSR have already been banned in Russia, but the abbreviation USSR is not always present in them. Most of the participants in these organizations are not communists, and their "magical USSR" sometimes has little in common with the real one," Verkhovsky explained. |
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