Russian Oppositionist Udaltsov Arrested over Information Dug by Belarusian KGB
Leader of The Left Front and prominent anti-Putin activist Sergei Udaltsov was arrested yesterday in Moscow after he was questioned by the Russian Investigative Committee.
He is charged with the preparation and organisation of mass disorders, as said on Udaltsov’s Twitter.
He also sent an SMS calling on not to give up and saying he was “closed.”
In the evening, Sergei Udaltsov was released under the cognizance not to leave the country.
The criminal case was initiated on the basis of the recent documentary The Anatomy Of Protest–2 by Russian channel NTV. The film asserts that Russian opposition prepares a seizure of power sponsored by foreign sources.
Russian newspaper Izvestiya says — referring to official representative of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin — that the compromising information was collected by the Belarusian KGB.
According to investigators, one of fragments of the documentary has a dialogue among Udaltsov, his assistant Konstantin Lebedev and Russian MP Ilya Ponomarev’s assistant Leonid Razvazhev who met in Minsk with Georgian politician and discussed different actions including terroristic attacks.
“It was found out that the voice — including the fragments of The Anatomy Of Protest–2 shot by a hidden camera — belongs to Udaltsov. The meeting shown in the film took place in a living unit in Minsk in second half of June, 2012,” Investigative Committee representative Vladimir Markin said.
In accordance with the article 212 of Russian Criminal Code, such crimes may be punished with up to 10-year imprisonment. If the link to the preparation of terroristic attack is proven, Udaltsov and his counterparts may face life sentence.
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