In Syktyvkar, FSB officers detained nationalist Alexei Kolegov, reports the Public Assembly of the Komi Republic.
The house of Kolegov, the ex-head of the right-wing movement “Frontier of the North” recognized as extremist and the coordinator of the “Meeting of the Public of the Komi Republic”, was searched. Information about the detention of the nationalist «Komiinform» was confirmed by a source in law enforcement agencies.
The public movement links the investigative actions with the previous April searches in the case of the nationalist Vladimir Basmanov ( Potkin). Then the FSB officers already came to Kolegov.
Also on April 19, a search was conducted at the home of nationalist Georgy Pavlov in Pskov. In Saratov, the security forces came to two former members of the «Association of People's Resistance» Andrey Martsev and Mikhail Pulin, who had emigrated, and in Nizhny Novgorod, to Pulin's wife Ekaterina Maksimova, who also left Russia.
In his public page on Vkontakte, on June 1, Kolegov published a photo from a meeting in Vilnius with one of the participants and the Russian European Movement Danil Konstantinov, the Black Bloc leader Vladimir Ratnikov, and the nationalist Serge Konstantinov.
Kolegov's personal page on Vkontakte, where the nationalist criticized Russia's invasion of Ukraine, was blocked last July at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office.
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In 2015, the Syktyvkar court sentenced six members of the Frontier of the North, including the leader of the movement, Kolegov.
The investigation claimed that in 2014 Kolegov staged a homophobic action — the participants of the raid, including teenagers, found homosexuals on the Internet and offered to meet. Men who came on a date were tied up, mocked and threatened to kill them. Kolegov argued in court that his associates «caught pedophiles.»
Kolegov was charged with torture (Article 117 of the Criminal Code), threats to kill (Part 1 of Article 119), involvement of minors in crimes (Article 150) and vandalism (Article 214) and was sentenced to four years in prison. The accusation also stated that in April 2015, at the direction of Kolegov, the group members bought blue and yellow paint and doused the monument to Vladimir Lenin on Stefanovskaya Square in Syktyvkar.
Anonymous telegram channel “No to extremism!” On July 5, without citing sources, he wrote that in the Republic of Komi a criminal case had been opened against a 38-year-old local resident for participation in the activities of a terrorist organization, treason, inciting hatred and mercenarism (Articles 205.5, 275, 282 and 359 of the Criminal Code). According to the Telegram channel, the detainee already had a criminal record in cases of hooliganism and causing grievous bodily harm motivated by hatred. At the same time, it is not known whether we are talking about Kolegov.