Russian media discovered neo-Nazi Anton Zyryanov in the footage of a press conference by the head of the Russian Volunteer Corps, Denis Kapustin*, devoted to the attack on the Belgorod region. In Russia, a criminal case was opened against him on suspicion of high treason, writing Telegram of May 20 Baza channel.
Before that, Zyryanov had already appeared in RDK advertisements. In particular, in January, on the instagram ** of the militants, he evoked his persecution in Russia, in particular for having set fire to the office of united Russia. Responding to a question about the arson, Zyryanov explained: “We saw the fight like that, we couldn’t sit at home. United Russia is the main party, at least it is linked to Medvedev, of course it is Putin’s main tool.
In another video, Zyryanov distributes RDK leaflets to a resident of the border village of Sluchovsk, Bryansk region, during his infiltration into the region on April 6.
On the evening of the same day, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that Russian troops, together with border guards, “suppressed an attempt to penetrate the territory of the Russian Federation into the area of ​​the settlement by the sabotage and reconnaissance group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, numbering more than 15 militants of Slouchaevsk, Bryansk region. According to the military department, the Ukrainian group was hit by artillery, after which, “having suffered a loss, it withdrew to the territory of Ukraine”. have not been suffered.
The case of the arson of the headquarters of “United Russia” in Perm
In 2019, a Perm court sentenced Zyryanov in absentia to seven years in prison for extremism and willful destruction of property. He was tried for burning down United Russia’s Perm headquarters and drawing slogans on the building of the regional prosecutor’s office. Another Perm resident, Dmitry Strelkov, and four other youths, including two minors at the time, were involved in the same case.
How writing Kommersant, during the investigation, Strelkov was accused of creating an extremist community, which appeared in operational documents as a “Perm Nazi team”. Zyryanov, who had been convicted four times for theft, was appointed as the community’s ideologue. According to investigators, they coordinated their actions through instant messengers – their correspondence also became evidence in the criminal case.
At first, all of the detainees that the court sent to the remand center agreed with the survey’s version. However, in the process, Strelkov and Zyryanov said that they initially slandered each other under pressure from the security forces. The public prosecutor noted that the defendants had not made any statement against the security forces before. At the same time, they denied the existence of a “Permian Nazi squad”, but admitted to having participated in the arson and the graffiti on the wall.
As Mediazona *** wrote, Strelkov argued in court that there was no extremism in their actions, and with the help of arson he wanted to assert himself and call on the public to fight corruption.
At the start of the examination of the case on the merits, all the defendants were released on bail. Dmitry Strelkov and Anton Zyryanov, whom the prosecutor offered to send to a colony for nine and four and a half years, respectively, did not appear for the verdict. As a result, the court sentenced Strelkov in absentia to seven years in a penal colony, and the previously convicted Anton Zyryanov was sentenced to five years in a penal colony. Additionally, the two were put on the wanted list.
As it turned out later, they managed to leave for Ukraine and hide there from the investigation. According to the FSB, it was then that Strelkova recruited the SBU, informed “Kommersant”. The Telegram Baza channel, citing survey data, wrote that in 2022 Strelkov and Zyryanov went to fight alongside Ukraine.
In December 2022, the FSB announcement about the exposure on the territory of the Perm Territory of the “intelligence group of the SBU”, which was preparing terrorist attacks and sabotage on the territory of Russia. According to the FSB, the organizer of the group was Strelkov.
As established intelligence officers, he and two other residents of the Perm Territory – Mikhail Sokolov and Alexei Gashev – prepared terrorist attacks and sabotage at socially important Perm facilities and infrastructure, and also supplied the SBU “another assistance in order to destabilize the social situation”. -the political situation in the region.” All three were charged with treason and espionage (Article 275, Article 276 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). At the request of the investigation, Sokolov and Gashev were arrested .
*included in Russia in the list of persons involved in extremist activities or terrorism
** Meta’s activities to implement Facebook and Instagram are recognized as extremist in Russia and banned
*** registered by the Ministry of Justice in the register of foreign agents
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