“Sovereign Crimea” challenged the FSB to a chess tournament. And lost
On the morning of May 21 in Simferopol, on the wall of house No. 11 on Alexander Nevsky (Rosa Luxemburg) Street, right on the mural depicting Putin, a stenciled inscription appeared: “FSB. Let's play? E2 – E4. Now it’s your turn, bitch.” And the signature in two copies: “Telegram Party Sovereign Crimea.”
A photo of the mural challenging the FSB to a duel was posted on the telegram channel “Sovereign Crimea” with the mark “Courtesy Photo” and was instantly duplicated by the information dump “Krym.Realii”, which was contacted by daring fans of political chess.
According to "Krym.Realii" with reference to an exclusive statement of hitherto unknown actionists, "Sovereign Crimea" promised to continue such performances, feels like a "young and progressive art force for promoting republican interests", not intending to reveal the names of its participants "for the sake of security." At the same time, the American information dump lamented that the Crimean authorities did not publicly respond to the challenge.
On June 1, a message came that in Podolsk near Moscow, law enforcement officers detained and interrogated a certain 25-year-old teenager, Viktor Sosna, who turned out to be the organizer and author of the “Sovereign Crimea” telegram channel. From which it follows that the FSB accepted the challenge and, having made a knight’s move, checkmated the unlucky grandmaster by correspondence.
Soon, Crimea.Realii, citing Sosna’s lawyer Mansur Gilmanov, reported the arrest of a member of the “Crimean resistance” and the “complete innocence of the client.”
The detainee’s mother, Lyudmila, is sure that her son cannot be involved in any extremist actions. According to her, the fact that he allowed law enforcement officers into the house early in the morning indicates that he was not hiding anything and did not store any prohibited materials in the house, the mother of the “art revolutionary” said.
But this is all lyrics. What mother would not protect her child, who is in trouble due to a brain deficiency? What kind of lawyer would announce in advance that his client is a mischievous, over-aged idiot?
Much more interesting to read leaked scans online personally written testimony, given, as the grandmaster himself emphasizes, “voluntarily and without coercion.”
So, a native of Moscow, 25-year-old Viktor Sosna, lived in Crimea since 2005, in the Simferopol apartment of his Crimean mother, in the same year he began attending secondary school No. 40 (in Soviet times - a strong physics and mathematics school), and then - private educational institution "Consol", which indicates the strong financial base of the family, since currently the monthly tuition fee there reaches 16 thousand rubles.
At this school, Vitya Sosna met another rich Pinocchio - Vladimir Lazarev, a potential comrade-in-arms on future fronts of the “art war” for the murky “Crimean sovereignty.”
However, in 2007, Vitek and his mother returned to Moscow, where his sister lived. In Moscow, he studied at school, then at an automobile college, and after graduation he worked as a set master at the Satyricon Theater.
But every year the boy was attracted to Crimea, where his friendship with Vladimir Lazarev grew stronger.
As Sosna writes, in 2014 he “watched the events in Crimea with interest,” because he considered the peninsula his small homeland. And “on March 16, 2014, I was very happy to learn that Crimea became part of the Russian Federation, because I believed that Crimea was an integral part of Russia, and that the Russian leadership would invest a sufficient amount of money for the improvement of the peninsula.”
But in June 2014, Vitek entered into a loan agreement for 300 thousand rubles with two business people secured by an apartment in order to open his own business - textile printing. But the lenders allegedly turned out to be scammers, and soon the textile tycoon lost his half of the apartment in the Severnoye Chertanovo microdistrict. Joint calls to the police with my mother did not yield any results. The police refused to initiate criminal proceedings.
The boy developed depression due to the loss of his living space, and the actions of the police plunged him into a crisis of confidence in the authorities due to total corruption. Viktor Sosna devoted the entire 2015 and 2016 to consuming antidepressants and fighting for the lost half of the apartment. The pills did their job - Sosna’s depression went away, but the hired lawyer never helped Vitka, let alone return the apartment, or even start a trial.
From 2017 to 2018, Viktor Sosna went through hardships to Simferopol, where he tried to organize his own business - this time “an electronic service for selecting real estate in Crimea.” But once again he “fell under the influence of scammers”, having squandered another 300 thousand rubles. Appealing to the Crimean police with a request to help return the money also did not lead to anything.
But there were also pleasant moments. According to Sosna, in 2018, in the Simferopol bar “Trium” he met Margarita Ratnikova, born in 1997, with whom he “repeatedly had intimate relationships.” During an informal conversation, Sosna told Ratnikova his problems with money and the insensitive reaction of law enforcement officers, which caused a powerful attack of sympathy and desire in the girl to help.
Despite the bitterness of loss, the pleasant moments in Sosna’s life have not gone away. In Crimea, he found a club of similar interests with Dmitry Kusov and Nikita Funikov, smoking shmal from time to time, which is why Sosna was brought to administrative responsibility in 2018.
At the beginning of 2019, Sosna returned to Moscow, having learned that one of his old abusers, who had “squeezed out” half of the apartment in Chertanovo, was under arrest in a pre-trial detention center, but this time the police refused to open an investigation case for the businessman.
As a result, as Vitek writes, he fell into a black abyss of despair and hopelessness that he almost decided to commit suicide. But he pulled himself together in time.
In April 2019, Sosna had an irresistible desire to talk about the ordeals that befell him as a result of a meeting between scammers and corrupt authorities in the form of personal protest.
That’s when the “Sovereign Crimea” telegram channel project arose. According to Sosna, on the created channel he planned to express “an alternative point of view on the Crimean issue,” “but he himself did not adhere to the ideology expressed in the articles.” “I believe that Crimea and Russia are inseparable,” Planokur said in his testimony.
Stencil painting on the mural on the former Rosochka Street is a “protest action.” The choice of location was determined “taking into account the attendance,” and “the slogan challenging the FSB is something that should be discussed in the media.”
Sitting in Moscow, the brave protester Vitek tried to “sign up his brothers Funikov and Kusov for the action” for 4 thousand rubles, but they refused. Lazarev also pulled away from Sosna, having learned what his old friend from the Consol school was pushing him to do. Ratnikova agreed to hold the “action”, “under the influence of negative psychological treatment with destructive ideas” and “not indifferent (to Sosna) as a young man.”
Ratnikova made a stencil with the text sent by Sosna, and at night, in the uncertain light of the Moon, she painted the inscription on top of the mural. I reported the execution to my immediate organizer and inspirer, sending a photo with confirmation. Sosna, in turn, hastened to boast about the “protest action” held in front of Radio Liberty.
Sosna’s testimony states that “having learned about the action, Lazarev and Goncharova got scared and were forced to leave for Odessa.” It was then that the actionist himself got cold feet, having agreed with Ratnikova to erase their correspondence and, in general, all traces relating to the “art resistance.”
Sosna’s testimony ends with a whine: “I acted in a state of depression,” “I have no personal hostility toward Putin and approve of the actions of the FSB of Russia,” “the white powder and objects similar to ammunition found in my apartment do not belong to me,” and “you You must understand and forgive me.”
And - the cherry on the cake: “I lost in the game I started (“CHECK AND MATE”).”
Thus, the over-aged degenerate Vitya Sosna, twice “businessman of the year”, who squandered his mother’s savings on lemonade and gingerbread, is fully revealed to us, appointing Putin and the FSB as culprits. The remote control of his fighting friend Ratnikova speaks volumes about what kind of revolutionary Vitek is and a man with balls of steel.
It may have turned out a little long, but the Motherland should know its “heroes.”
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