The Military Investigation Department of the Central Military District has begun checking the methods and techniques used by the authorities and special services in investigating the case of Kanan teenagers accused of plotting a terrorist attack. In particular, the military investigation department for the Krasnoyarsk garrison checks the FSB officers.
Much in the essence of the Kansk case, and in its course, is not amenable to logical comprehension, is not exhausted by rational arguments. There are several forks in its development, when it could go one way or another and went in the most unpredictable way. And the role here was played not only by the Chekists and their interests, but also by the guys who fell under investigation and their mothers.
For example, when the mother of the main accused, Anna Uvarova, after an article in Novaya, readers collected money for a lawyer and parcels for her son, she divided them with two other mothers so that they would also find good lawyers. This is after they, in fact, handed her over with her son, testifying against them (later everyone refused to turn himself in) and asked to put Nikita in a pre-trial detention center — allegedly fearing for their safety. No, in the case of Anna, this is not holy simplicity, it is different, something we have almost forgotten. But the authorities have not forgotten how to use these qualities, preserved by the deep people.
Now here is a school notebook with torn sheets from a blue bag. In it, Nikita Uvarov in June 2020 began to keep a diary in a pre-trial detention center (a copy was handed over to the editor), but he quit. On January 17, 2022, the military investigator received this notebook and attached it to the audit materials. The explanations indicate that Uvarov, in his words, made these diary entries a week after the arrest. I led it, said Nikita, to remember this situation.
UFSB office in Kansk. Photo: Baza
In his memoir, Nikita, for example, describes in detail the moment of detention: they put him against the wall in the following position — “the legs are spread apart shoulder-width apart, the arms are to the wall, bent at the elbows and raised, and the palms are from the wall to the FSB officers outward, so that it can be seen — like in SIZO, when you leave the cell, and they probe you and search you against the wall. None of the people who detained them in civilian clothes introduced themselves to Nikita and his friends, did not answer his questions, so he decides not to answer his name, and further
an employee with glasses “says something like: if you don’t say what your name is, then we will just call you a fag. Also, in order for me to answer questions, he began to put pressure on my neck — like he wanted to strangle me.
Although who I was, they probably knew, since even before that they had said something about a personal page on VKontakte, from which I was sitting, and in general *** (a FSB officer) said that we were under development at them even before they posted the first time the pictures from the agitrade.” The last one is about anarchist leaflets that the guys pasted on the walls of Kansk.
So, the question is: where and who hid this notebook all this time?
It turned out that it was inconvenient for Anna to show the notes son to strangers. Here's how she explained it to Novaya:
— At the trial, after more than once or twice they said about the pressure from the FSB and the violations that were in the case, the prosecutor said that an audit would be carried out. On January 14, we were invited by a military investigator: the check began. Nikita gave the first explanations. And when he began to tell how he was strangled, I remembered that I knew this from somewhere. He himself never told me anything about this, and nothing about the order in the pre-trial detention center. The child never complained to me at all. We returned home from the investigator, and I climbed, where I had something important separately, and in a blue bag I found this notebook of his from the pre-trial detention center with torn pages. I read it as soon as he was released from the pre-trial detention center (May 2021 — A.T.), — then I went through the letters that he received in the pre-trial detention center and found it. It was only from this notebook that I found out that they tried to strangle him, which generally happened until the moment when I arrived. But, you see, there is one word there that is not good for “pi”. And I realized that this definitely could not be any evidence — it is inconvenient for people to show. But he wrote for himself in order to understand himself, to understand what was happening, to express his thoughts. Well, I read it and posted it. And there is nothing to pull the lawyer once again. Summer is already here, he has plenty of other work to do. And I forgot before the time.
Well, now I've found it again. The next day I brought it to the investigator, and he attached it, on the 18th he questioned Nikita again. But there in the notebook only about the first day, June 6th. Then he stopped writing. And now I don't even remember this notebook.
Anna Uvarova with her son Nikita, after being released from custody. Photos from the family archive
To date, all the defendants in the case have been interviewed. «Novaya» has copies of the explanations taken by the senior investigator, Major Velichko, from two teenagers in the presence of their mothers. One explained that at the trial he testified about pressure on him by the FSB officers, and insists on this testimony.
Question: when he and his friends were detained and brought to the Kansk investigation committee, did he see that the officers used physical force against two other teenagers who were taken with him and later became accused in the case of preparing a terrorist attack?
Answer: no, because they were placed separately from us; I heard a noise, but what happened there, I don’t know for sure. (They detained five guys and brought them to the department in several cars. And then they took them to different rooms.)
Nikita, under the protocol, spoke about that day on June 6, 2020 and the days following until his detention in more detail. He also named the names of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs officers, which he learned later (they did not introduce themselves), — the newspaper will omit them for the time being, since there is still no absolute clarity with them.
In general terms, according to his words, recorded by the investigator: a group of guys were detained by the FSB, they were taken to the Kansk investigative department of the Investigative Committee, they were placed against the wall in his premises. The officers asked for personal data, Nikita refused to speak, since they themselves did not introduce themselves and did not explain the reasons for the detention. One of the FSB officers approached Nikita from behind, put his hand around his neck and began to squeeze him, demanding that he speak. Subsequently, Nikita provided his data, and he was released. (On the 18th, Nikita gave additional explanations: when the phone was seized, he was asked for a password, otherwise the phone would be broken; in addition,
Nikita stressed that it was pain from squeezing his neck that forced him to give his data.)
Then all the detainees were taken to different rooms. And two spoke directly with Nikita — the same FSB officer who strangled him, and a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Around nine o'clock in the evening, Nikita's mother arrived at the department, the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB said «that nothing will happen to Nikita,» and then follows a description of what was happening already under Anna's control — we went to seize the leaflets, then to the police stronghold, where Nikita was first questioned by an investigator from the Ministry of Internal Affairs in in the presence of five FSB officers (on January 18, Nikita added that they interfered with the interrogation, constantly interfered, laughed at him), then in another office — a new FSB officer interrogated, the same officer who had previously used force, strangling Nikita, was also present. When they repeatedly asked the same question (“why did you make an explosive device?”) — since, apparently, the answer did not suit, and Anna made a remark, she was told that she would be removed from the office. “Asking questions in a circle, threats to remove my mother were pressure on me, but they did not affect the explanations I gave,” says Nikita. The poll continued until 5 am.One of the leaflets pasted by teenagers. Photo: Baza
The next day, the survey was conducted by the investigator of the Investigative Committee Parkhomenko in the presence of a teacher, the FSB officer who conducted the previous survey again came in, intervened again and asked; this poll continued until 1 am.
On the third day, the Uvarovs arrived at 9 a.m., but entered the investigator’s office at about 1 p.m., and one of the three FSB officers handed over a prepared protocol of interrogation with confessions about their intention to commit a terrorist act — to blow up the building of the FSB or the Ministry of Internal Affairs no later than August 31, 2020 . At the same time, there was no lawyer, as well as a teacher and a psychologist. Nikita refused to sign it. Parkhomenko (SK) was present, but did not participate in the conversation.
One of the FSB officers promised: in case of non-signing — a pre-trial detention center, he had handcuffs in his hands. Another said — say goodbye to mom.
As a result, Parkhomenko announced that he had been detained and sent to a temporary detention center. Nikita ended up in the car with two FSB operatives. The questions continued. When he didn’t like the answer, the FSB officer who was sitting next to him gave Nikita a slap on the back of the head: “I didn’t feel pain, but I felt unpleasant, and it was unexpected.” That's what Nikita said, and the investigator wrote it down on January 14.
Anna says:
— Nikita doesn't have anything about it in his notebook, he didn't write it. And now the investigator asks Nikita: “How did he hit you?” — «Not much». — “Well, how? Show me.» And he sits and shows, lightly knocking on the lid of the laptop. Nikita shied away, the laptop flew up.
On January 18, Nikita, the son of his mother, nevertheless noticed to the investigator that in fact this blow — “slap” — was strong, and he experienced pain, but earlier he spoke differently, because that he was ashamed to admit it.
He also clarified what caused the inadequate reaction of the FSB operative: to his question, what did you make, Nikita answered — pyrotechnics.
Then the blow on head, and, apparently, the right answer was suggested: bombs.
In addition, the explanation now says that these two FSB officers threatened to beat Nikita in the car.