As the Cheka-OGPU learned, in Udmurtia the FSB investigated and brought charges…

As the Cheka-OGPU learned, in Udmurtia the FSB investigated and brought to a conviction its “Network case” – four local residents received long prison sentences for “creating an illegal armed group (IAF) and participating in it” and illegal arms trafficking. As in the previous, but much more high-profile case, the accusation was based on the confession of one of the “participants” of the illegal armed group T. (his last name is not disclosed), the case against whom was eventually dropped due to “active repentance” and assumptions consequences. In addition, this testimony, as the defense pointed out during the criminal case in court, is unreliable and contradictory due to the presence of mental illness among the witnesses.

According to the investigation, Izhevsk resident Alexander Buldakov, “disappointed by the collapse of the USSR and denying the legality of the existence of the Russian Federation, in order to change the foundations of the constitutional system,” decided in January 2020 to create a combat unit to attack police officers, intimidate them and destabilize the activities of law enforcement agencies. He invited members of the community “Union of Indigenous Peoples of Great Rus’ of the USSR”, Dmitry Tretyakov, Oleg Tsuprov, and Alexander Vasiliev, to join it.

At the end of August – beginning of September 2020, “members of illegal armed groups” allegedly made several trips to Tchaikovsky (Perm Territory) to buy weapons from local like-minded people – father and daughter Vladislav Glumov and Alena Khazieva. The latter allegedly belonged to the so-called All-Union Association of Voters of the Peoples of Russia USSR (VOINR USSR), whose members consider themselves citizens of the Soviet Union and live according to the legislation they invented. The association included Khazieva’s husband, local businessman Rif Khaziev, who committed suicide on January 2, 2020. He repaired weapons and had a whole arsenal with him.

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In several cars, members of the Union of Indigenous Peoples of Great Rus’ of the USSR took weapons from Tchaikovsky. Tsuprov, according to investigators, was driving first and warned like-minded people about traffic police posts along the route using a walkie-talkie. The barrels (a homemade SVD rifle, a Thompson submachine gun, a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a Mosin rifle, 654 rifle cartridges of 7.62 mm caliber, 1150 pistol cartridges of 11.43 mm caliber, 228 rifle cartridges of 9 mm caliber) were delivered to the Gazelle to a cache in forest belt, where they were stored in tubes made from sewer pipes. The members of the illegal armed formations kept other weapons (a Ballester-Molina pistol, a Nagan revolver, etc.) with them.

It is noteworthy that the conversations about the attack on the police were conducted exclusively by T., and it was he who provoked Buldakov, Tretyakov, Tsuprov and Vasiliev to purchase weapons – by the way, all of them are antediluvian antiques. A number of witnesses stated that the testimony given during the investigation was untrue because they were under pressure. In addition, the defense claims that the territorial jurisdiction of the criminal case was violated (it was considered in the Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg). Moreover, the case was heard in an illegal court, since one of the judges at the time of the verdict was appointed chairman of the Yekaterinburg Garrison Military Court.

Members of illegal armed groups were detained on September 12, 2020. The court sentenced them to terms ranging from 9 to 13 years in prison. Everyone will have to serve the first four years in prison, then in a maximum security colony. Each was also fined 200 thousand rubles.