The FSB office for the Samara region accused artist and environmental activist Irina Izmailova of treason. This became known at a meeting to extend the term of her detention in a pre-trial detention center, Idel reported. Realities.”
As Izmailova’s defender clarified to Mediazona, the basis for initiating a case under the article on treason (275 of the Criminal Code), according to the investigation, was her collaboration with the Ukrainian special services.
“We expected something like this, they don’t send such people to court without terrorism or treason. They immediately suspected Irina of colluding with the Ukrainian special services,” the lawyer said.
Recyclable materials for the FSB. The girl of an RDK fighter fighting in Ukraine was arrested in Samara — the FSB has not allowed her lawyer to participate in the case for a month already.
34-year-old Irina Izmailova is the girlfriend of Samara activist Alexander Kudashev, who in the summer of 2023 joined the ranks of the Russian Volunteer Corps — one of the formations that includes immigrants from Russia are fighting on the side of Ukraine. The backbone of the RDC are far-right activists.</p>» data-type=»hint» data-slate-custom=»{"data-body»:"<p>The Russian Volunteer Corps is one of the formations in which immigrants from Russia fight on the side of Ukraine. The backbone of the RDK is made up ultra-right activists.</p>","body":"<p>The Russian Volunteer Corps is one of the formations in which immigrants from Russia fight on the side of Ukraine. The backbone of the RDC are far-right activists.</p>","isCreated":false,"migrationId":"1646998844495","html":null}»>RDK and is now fighting on the side of Ukraine. Before the war, Izmailova and Kudashev were involved in the “Recyclables for Charity” project. Volunteers collected waste paper, plastic, glass batteries and other raw materials, and also cleaned the banks of the Volga.
The artist was detained in September 2023 and placed in a pre-trial detention center on charges that she produced acetone peroxide according to the instructions of a “curator from the SBU” (part 1 of article 223.1 of the Criminal Code). After her arrest, Izmailova was interrogated with a lawyer imposed on her by the security forces. She admitted guilt in the case. In the presence of an FSB investigator, the girl told the lawyer, with whom the artist’s relatives had entered into an agreement, that she did not need her help.
Kudashev himself and Izmailova’s lawyer associate her persecution with the fact that she is the girlfriend of a fighter of the Russian Volunteer Corps.