On September 11, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested 47-year-old native of the Moscow region Mikhail Darius for two months in the case of publicly justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona found the case file on the court’s website; the press service confirmed that the man was sent to a pre-trial detention center.
What exactly Mikhail Darius is accused of, the press service could not explain.
Assigned lawyer Evgeny Shalamov, who represented Darius’ interests when choosing a preventive measure, also said that he could not disclose the details of the case without the consent of his client. Darius, according to him, was placed in pre-trial detention center No. 7 in Moscow.
The arrestee’s sister said that she knew nothing about the criminal prosecution of her brother, since she had not communicated with him for many years.
Mikhail Darius is 47 years old, he was born in 1975. Darius’s page on VKontakte was “temporarily frozen” due to «suspicious activity».
On his Instagram, among 67 subscriptions, there are politicians and businessmen Alexey Navalny, Maria Pevchikh, Evgeny Chichvarkin, Alexander Nevzorov, Oleg Tinkov, Maxim Kats, and There are also more than ten accounts that talk about emigration to the USA and Canada.
In his telegram, judging by his channel subscriptions, Mikhail Darius was also interested in protests, rallies and Navalny’s activities. In addition, he was subscribed to channels talking about emigration to the USA and Canada.
Dariy was also a member of a group called “Peace”, which mainly reposts messages about the war in Ukraine. The description states that it is led by “an ordinary person living in the Russian Federation” who is “against a stupid, terrible, destructive war.” The group consists of more than one and a half thousand people.