The Perovsky District Court of Moscow arrested the former military psychologist Timofey Rudenko in the case of incitement to terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). Rudenko's defense side reported this to Mediazona.
The criminal case against the man became known yesterday. According to investigators, from April 29 to May 1, 2022, Rudenko, under the name «Maimul Maimulovich», wrote in the telegram channel «Crimea is the land of partisan glory»comments “justifying the actions of members of illegal armed formations, supporters of [Dzhokhar] Dudayev, who were operating on the territory of the Chechen Republic and fighting in Ukraine against the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.”
The user “Maimul Maimulovich,” under whose name the former military man registered in the telegram, according to the Investigative Committee, also “called for the commission of terrorist acts, sabotage, and terrorist attacks directed against state authorities in the Russian Federation.” The texts of the messages themselves are not given in the resolution, which Mediazona has read.
Timofey Rudenko is 30 years old, a few years ago he quit his job and spoke out against the war in Ukraine on VKontakte. In May 2022, they came to his house with a search. According to the former military man, the security forces tortured him with a stun gun and demanded «a confession that he was allegedly a terrorist and was preparing terrorist attacks in Moscow and Russia as a whole.» No charges were brought against him then, while after the search he was placed under administrative arrest three times.
In May 2023, Rudenko was detained at the Zhukovsky airport, from where he was going to fly to Kyrgyzstan. In a conversation with Mediazona, the ex-military man recalled that the security forces again used a stun gun on him and offered to “atone for his homeland” by joining the Wagner PMC. Since then, he has been placed under administrative arrest five times in a row under the article on petty hooliganism (20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). In the same protocols from police reports, it was stated that Rudenko swore on the street and molested passers-by.
They also tried to attract a man according to article about the demonstration of Nazi symbols: during a personal search, drawings with the flag of Ukraine and the Azov detachment were found in his notebooks. The judges returned the protocols to the police twice due to errors.