A Right Sector recruiter who recruited mercenaries for the war against the “Moscow rabble” is on trial in Moscow.
The Moscow City Court jury has begun considering the case of Alexander Razumov, accused of recruiting mercenaries on Russian territory to participate in hostilities in the Donbass, Kommersant reports.
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“The meeting began with an opening speech from prosecutor Galina Karpova,” the newspaper writes. – She said that a native of Zelenograd, Alexander Razumov, professing the ideas of nationalism (which one, the prosecutor did not specify), went to Ukraine back in April 2014, where he joined the ranks of the Right Sector, banned in the Russian Federation, whose members took an active part in military actions in the south-east of Ukraine. The prosecution had no information that the defendant himself took part in them. But it was known that from May to July 2014 he underwent training in one of the camps of Ukrainian nationalists, located on the territory of a military unit in Chernigov. After that, he returned to Russia, where he began recruiting Russians into the ranks of the Ukrainian National Guard fighting in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.”
In his homeland, Razumov was a member of the people's squad and often acted as a witness when detaining offenders, and in August 2014, he tried to recruit two operational police officers to participate in battles on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
“At the same time, the defendant promised the police that they would be paid much more for fighting in Ukraine than for serving in Russia,” the publication informs. “And for each damaged unit of armored vehicles and each killed militiaman, pay extra “bonuses.” The police responded to the proposal with a decisive refusal, and filed reports about the fact of recruitment to their superiors. After this, Alexander Razumov was detained.”
“Prosecutor Karpova emphasized that the defendant had sympathies for Ukrainian nationalists for a long time,” the newspaper notes. – Since 2012, he regularly posted texts and comments with “Russophobic content” on his social network page. According to the prosecutor, they could be classified as expressions of personal opinion if they were not accompanied by insults against Russians. The author of the publications called them nothing more than “Muscovites” and “drunken, stupid and brutal rabble” that “must be destroyed.”
All this served as the basis for bringing charges under Part 1 of Art. 282 (incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity) and under Part 1 of Art. 359 (mercenarism) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
However, the defendant’s lawyer stated that Razumov, “using the freedom of speech existing in Russia,” only expressed his opinion on social networks, without offending anyone. The phrases cited by the prosecutor, according to the lawyer, were taken out of context. The defendant himself spoke in the same spirit, declaring that he did not admit and does not admit any guilt.”
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