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KAZAN, October 23 The Sovetsky District Court of Kazan arrested until December 5 a journalist with Russian and US citizenship, Alsa Kurmasheva, who was detained under the article of evading duties by foreign agents, a correspondent from the hall reports court.
The meeting, at the request of the investigator, was held behind closed doors. The Radio Liberty journalist* could have been arrested on Friday, but then the court limited herself to extending the detention period by 72 hours.
“To choose against Kurmasheva… a preventive measure in the form of detention for a period of 1 month 17 days, that is, until December 5,” the judge said. Kurmasheva is a native of Kazakhstan, registered in Kazan, and actually lives in the Czech Republic. She will be kept in Kazan pre-trial detention center-2.
Kurmasheva was detained as a suspect under Part 3 of Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (failure to fulfill the obligation established by the legislation of the Russian Federation to submit to the authorized body the documents necessary for inclusion in the register of foreign agents, committed by a person carrying out the targeted collection of information in the field of military, military-technical activities, which, if received by foreign sources, can be used against the security of Russia). This article carries a penalty ranging from a fine to imprisonment for up to 5 years. State Department official Matthew Miller previously told reporters that the department is monitoring the fate of Kurmasheva, and given her dual citizenship, the United States considers it necessary to provide her with consular assistance.
According to the Tatar-inform agency, the investigation believes that Kurmasheva in September 2022 received information about the mobilized teachers of one of the universities in Tatarstan and used it in preparing “alternative analytical materials for specialized international authorities and conducting information discrediting Russia campaigns.»
* Media performing the functions of a foreign agent