Until June 17, the Verkh-Isetsky district court of Yekaterinburg arrested public relations specialist Yaroslav Shirshikov, accused of justifying terrorism due to a message about the death of military commander Vladlen Tatarsky. It is reported by “Mediazona” *.
An eyewitness present at the hearing said no one was allowed into the courtroom except for a lawyer and a prosecutor.
Shirshikov’s detention became known on April 18. The common-law wife of a PR man said that FSB agents broke into their apartment. According to the woman, they conducted a search for about an hour, handcuffed Shirshikov and said that he was a witness in a certain case, so he would be taken to the department “just to talk.”
Later Shirshikov’s lawyer Fyodor Akchermyshev informed that his client was charged under Part 2 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Public justification of terrorism or propaganda of terrorism committed using mass media or electronic or information and telecommunication networks”). The reason for this was the message about the death of Tatarsky. According to the lawyer, Shirshikov was interrogated at the FSB directorate for the Sverdlovsk region, and during the search his phone was confiscated.
Base reported that Shirshikov was arrested after Call of the People activists complained about him. They sent an appeal to the chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin.
Kommersant-Ural, citing a source writing that the reason for opening a criminal case against Shirshikov was a message in which a PR man called the military commissar Tatarsky a “thug” and admitted that he did not feel “a shadow of sadness” at cause of his murder.
According to Kommersant-Ural, the security forces are also checking Shirshikov’s relations with Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested on March 29 in Yekaterinburg for an espionage case (Article 276 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Russia).
Shirshikov was the first to report the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in Yekaterinburg on March 30. He noted that “a few weeks ago” he gave an interview to a reporter on the subject of the attitude of local residents to PMC “Wagner”. The FSB accused Gershkovich of espionage. He is under arrest.
Death of Tatarsky
Tatarsky died on April 2 following an explosion at a cafe in St. Petersburg where a meeting of the Cyber Z Front club was taking place. According to security forces, the bomb exploded in a figurine, which was handed over to the military commander by 26-year-old Daria Trepova (Darya Trepova). She was detained the next day in a rented apartment. The criminal case was first initiated under the article “Murder in a generally dangerous manner”, then it was reclassified as a “terrorist attack”.
The National Anti-Terrorism Committee said the explosion “was planned by the special services of Ukraine with the participation of agents among the people collaborating with the so-called Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK **) (opponent Alexei) Navalny”.
- registered by the Ministry of Justice of Russia in the register of foreign agents
** recognized in Russia as an extremist organization and banned
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