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Igor Kolesnikov, the grandson of WWII veteran Ignat Artemenko, whom Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny called a traitor, mistook his grandfather’s patronymic on social media.
On February 5, at a meeting of Moscow’s Babushkinsky District Court, where the case of WWII veteran Ignat Artemenko against Russian opponent Alexei Navalny was considered, it turned out that the injured party did not write a statement to the prosecution. . office. This was announced by the television channel “Rain”.
Navalny’s attorneys noted that a statement signed by the veteran was attached to the case file.
At the meeting, Artemenko’s interests were represented by his grandson Igor Kolesnikov. In his post on VKontakte, where he promised to protect the veteran, Kolesnikov mistook his grandfather’s patronymic: instead of Ignat Sergeevich, he wrote IA Artemenko in the initials, journalists note.
At the trial, Navalny told Kolesnikov: “You are a merchant grandfather, you raised a grandson, a prostitute.”
According to Dozhd, several companies are registered at the address where Artemenko lives. The founder of one of them is the son of a veteran and his partner, the deputy of the State Duma of the Liberal Democratic Party Oleg Lavrov.
In June 2020, Navalny aware a video on social media, which featured actors Vasily Lanovoy and Ivan Okhlobystin, hockey player Vyacheslav Fetisov, 93-year-old World War II participant Ignat Artemenko and others. They spoke in support of the amendments to the Constitution of RF. Navalny called the heroes of video traitors.
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against Navalny. As the TASS agency wrote, Artemenko accidentally read the comment, causing the veteran to have heart problems from nervousness, and on several occasions an ambulance was called.
On February 5, a judicial session was held, in which the veteran participated through a video link. The meeting was postponed to February 12.
Navalny is charged with committing a crime according to Part 2 of art. 128.1 of the Criminal Code of Russia (libel). The sanction of this article provides for a fine of up to 1 million rubles. (approximately $ 13.4 thousand) or imprisonment for up to two years. The opponent does not admit his guilt.
On February 2, the Simonovsky Court of Moscow, in a retreat at the Moscow Municipal Court, replaced Navalny’s suspended sentence with a real one in the Yves Rocher case. Taking into account the time he spent under house arrest, the politician will remain in a general regime colony for two years and eight months. At the end of December 2014, the Zamoskvoretsky Court in Moscow sentenced Navalny to three and a half years of suspended prison with a five-year probationary period, and his brother Oleg to the same royal prison sentence.
The investigation claimed that Navalny convinced the Yves Rocher company to conclude an unprofitable contract for transportation services, resulting in damages of 26 million rubles. ($ 340 thousand). The brothers denied their guilt. In 2015, Alexey Navalny announced the payment of all fines in the Yves Rocher case. In 2017, the trial period was extended by one year. It expired on December 29, 2020, before this time, Navalny had to come at least twice a month to register with the Federal Penitentiary Service.
In October 2017, the European Court of Human Rights recognized that the court against Navalny and his brother Oleg was unfair and ordered the Russian Federation to pay them more than 80,000 euros in compensation. The Navalny received compensation, but the sentence was not canceled.
On January 17, 2021, Navalny returned to Russia from Germany, where he was treated after being poisoned with a Novichok-class military substance. The politician was in a coma for 18 days. The opponent considers the assassination attempt as a terrorist act organized by the FSB on the order of Russian President Vladimir Putin. WITHOnce after his return, the politician was arrested in the Yves Rocher case and detained for 30 days.
Shortly before Navalny’s return, the Federal Penitentiary Service threatened him with an actual prison term instead of a suspended one. The FSIN said that in 2020 Navalny “systematically and repeatedly violated the conditions of the trial period, in particular, at least six times he did not show up for registration.”
After Navalny’s arrest, mass demonstrations began in the Russian Federation. According to the opposition team, 250-300 thousand people participated in the actions on January 23 across the country, on January 31 – 200-300 thousand. On February 2, the day of Navalny’s trial, new protests took place in Russia. but they weren’t that full …
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