A court in Chita sentenced a 20-year-old native of the Orenburg region to 17 years in a strict regime colony in the case of preparing a terrorist attack in a mosque. This was reported to ChitaMedia by the press service of the FSB department for the Trans-Baikal Territory.
It is not known which court made the decision and the name of the convict. Interfax clarifies that the young man was accused of organizing an extremist community (parts 1 and 2 of article 282.1 of the Criminal Code), preparing and inciting to murder (part 4 of article 33 and part 2 of article 105 with the application of part 1 of article 30 of the Criminal Code) and «for numerous other articles.» The young man was also fined 500 thousand rubles.
According to the FSB, the Orenburg resident is “an accomplice of the Ukrainian far-right nationalist organization Maniacs. Killing Cult» (M.K.U.)». The security forces claim that he wrote posts on the Internet inciting ethnic and religious hatred, publicly called for extremism and «persuaded others to join the M.K.U.» in order to use it to blow up the cathedral mosque in Orenburg «with the subsequent execution of its parishioners.» When exactly the Orenburg citizen was detained is unknown.
On January 16, the Supreme Court satisfied the demand of the Prosecutor General's Office and recognized as terrorist «the international movement «Maniacs of the Murder Cult»». Representatives of the neo-Nazi movement «Ethnic National Association» told Novaya Gazeta that «M.K.U does not exist as an organization» and that its alleged leader, Yegor Krasnov, a resident of Dnipro, committed suicide in a pre-trial detention center in March 2021.