The former mayor of Yekaterinburg is charged with an article for "public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the RF Armed Forces."
The Russian Federation arrested the last politician who publicly expressed disagreement and spoke out against a full-scale war in Ukraine. On August 24, special forces detained Yevgeny Roizman, the former mayor of Yekaterinburg. This is reported by the Russian media
So, on the morning of the 24th, about six security officials burst into the entrance of the oppositionist's house, they went up to his apartment. Roizman opened the doors to the special forces, after which they announced that they would search his house in connection with a criminal case. Then the lawyers of the ex-mayor of Yekaterinburg confirmed that investigative actions were being carried out in the politician’s apartment. One of the human rights activists also reported that the security forces did not let him see politics.
Searches also took place in Roizman's fund and the museum of the Nevyansk icon founded by him. Russian media reported that icons were being removed from the museum, and the security forces wanted to seize documents from its fund. Several packages with things and a computer were also taken out of Roizman's apartment.
The politician is accused of "discrediting" the Russian army. He repeatedly spoke out against the Putin regime and condemned the full-scale war that the Russian Federation unleashed in Ukraine.
Roizman himself, when he was taken out of the apartment, told reporters that the case against him was opened "in fact, in one phrase." The Russian Federation calls the full-scale war in Ukraine a "special operation", and the politician openly called it an invasion. The former mayor believes that he will be transferred from Yekaterinburg to Moscow.
According to the criminal article 280.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which the Russian security forces impute to Roizman, the politician has already been fined three times. Now the Russian authorities have decided to take the opposition leader into custody.
Roizman spoke out against the war many times and refused to leave the Russian Federation even under the threat of persecution. Yesterday, he again condemned the Putin regime and made a “repost†of a post criticizing the bloody dictator.
“If it weren’t for Putin, Russia would already have the 4th or 5th President, they would have driven to Europe for a penny without any visas, and it would have been no more difficult to hit the road from Moscow to Kyiv for the weekend than to St. Petersburg or Kazan. And no political prisoners, wars , corpses and occupied territories," Roizman reposted on Twitter.
