Vyacheslav Kryukov, Ruslan Kostylenkov, Pyotr Karamzin and Dmitry Poletaev during the trialMOSCOW , Jan 17 The Second Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction on Monday upheld the verdict on the defendants in the New Greatness case convicted of organizing an extremist community, RIA Novosti was told in court. «The court left the cassation appeal unsatisfied,» the press said -service.
The defense will continue to appeal the verdict in the New Greatness case. According to the verdict and the subsequent decision of the Moscow City Court, three defendants were sentenced to real terms — Ruslan Kostylenkov was sentenced to 6 years and 9 months, Pyotr Karamzin — 6 years and 3 months, Vyacheslav Kryukov — 6 years in prison. The court appointed suspended sentences for the rest of the defendants: Maxim Roshchin — 6.5 years, Maria Dubovik and Dmitry Poletaev — 6 each, Anna Pavlikova — 4 years. In August 2020, the Lublin Court of Moscow found seven young people guilty of organizing the extremist organization New Greatness . The court concluded that the defendants intended to seize power in Russia by staging a coup d'état. The defendants themselves claim that the idea of creating such an organization was “prompted” to them by embedded police officers and the FSB. At the end of October 2020, the Lublin Court of Moscow sentenced another defendant, Pavel Rebrovsky, to six years in a penal colony with restriction of freedom for a year. This is already the second trial his affairs. In April 2019, as part of a pre-trial agreement, he received 2.5 years in prison, but subsequently complained about the pressure of the investigation and refused to admit guilt and testify against alleged accomplices. The verdict was annulled, and the case was sent back for review.
