In the Rostov region, five people were detained who denied the collapse of the USSR, 161.ru reported, citing a source in law enforcement agencies.
161.ru calls them supporters of the Union of Slavic Forces of Russia movement, which in 2019 year they were recognized as an extremist organization.
They were detained in the case of organizing the work of an extremist organization (Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code), according to Komsomolskaya Pravda.
KP, Bloknot-Rostov and Yuzhnaya Novosti Service — also citing a source — give the same details: searches took place in Rostov, Taganrog, Azov, Shakhty, as well as in cities outside the Rostov region — in Adler, Pyatigorsk and Essentuki .
The publications describe the activities of the detainees in the same way: they sold “inserts of a citizen of the USSR” for 1.5 thousand rubles, wrote “mass complaints” to officials in order to “block their activities”, and also urged them not to pay loans, do not pay utility bills and do not serve in the army.
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The Union of Slavic Forces of Russia was created in 2010 by Moscow dentist Sergei Taraskin, who lost his business after the financial crisis. He and his supporters insist that the Soviet Union did not collapse, and that the current government in Russia is illegitimate. In the spring of 2022, Taraskin was sent to a colony.
Kommersant wrote that, according to the FSB, the movement had 150,000 followers. The court decision to ban the «Union of Slavic Forces of Russia» cited other FSB data that about 450 people participated in their work around the country.
In addition to the Taraskin movement, the courts recognized three more associations of «citizens of the USSR» as extremist organizations «. The SOVA Center singled out more than 30 notable groups of «citizens of the USSR» who were not associated with Taraskin. At the same time, activists who deny the collapse of the USSR, who became defendants in cases of an extremist organization, are charged with participation in the Union of Slavic Forces of Russia. =»mz-publish-context-cite__image» alt=»1″ /> «Compensation must be demanded directly from Elizabeth II.» Two excerpts from a study about «citizens of the USSR»