One more criminal case on the alleged “extremism” has been fabricated in Nizhny Novgorod. The new provocation has been organized by staff people of the Center to combat extremism at the Ministry of the Interior.

The criminal case has been initiated against an activist of the Other Russia coalition, Limonov’s follower, Vladimir Zinkovskiy. In his turn, Zinkovskiy has submitted a report on crimes perpetrated against him by service people with the Center to counteract extremism to the prosecutor’s office. In his report Zinkovskiy claims that he was threatened by them and the fliers which content he is unaware of were planted on him to fabricate the case.

Vladimir Zinkovskiy immediately turned to the prosecutor’s office with regard to the fabrication of the case and threats.

His report to the prosecutor’s office states,

Then they took me to the vicinity of another apartment house at the address Vaneev St., 55. There a lieutenant colonel A.V. Trifonov, the deputy chief of the Department to counteract extremism, was waiting for us.

Trifonov started threatening me with a criminal case being initiated. He referred to a flier that had been already stuck to the corner of the house. The flier had been stuck by either Trifonov or any of his colleagues. When the car of patrol police arrived in some two hours after my detention, he openly told the policemen, “We have already put the flier round the corner”. Then Trifonov put a pack of fliers into a pocket of my overcoat and a mayonnaise plastic pot with some substance into the plastic bag with the food I had bought.

The patrol police searched me and made the report on my detention. At that, it was being done as dictated by Trifonov. He claimed that I had been disseminating extremist fliers and insulting policemen while being stopped by them. It didn’t correspond to the facts. My statement that I had not seen the fliers before and that I had learnt from Trifonov’s dictation that there was glue in the mayonnaise plastic pot was not mentioned in the report.

Then I was taken to the Sovetsky district police station of Nizhny Novgorod. Trifonov interrogated me there without making a report. Then they put me into a cell where I stayed until the court session. I state that I didn’t receive either a report on my detention or on my search at the Sovetsky district police station.

In the morning of March 3, 2009, I was taken to court office #7. I was denied a lawyer. I was not even allowed to submit petitions. The judge Telkova E.I asked my name when I entered the court room. I was taken out immediately after I confirmed my identity. In some half an hour I was taken back inside where Telkova announced the court ruling to keep me in 5-day custody. Thus, the court session actually developed in my absence.

While I was serving administrative custody, Trifonov took me for interrogations two times, on March 4 and 5. On neither case reports of interrogations were developed. They were held in the premises of Nizhegorodskiy district police office. During those interrogations, he threatened me with different consequences, from imprisonment to the murder”.

In Vladimir Zinkovskiy’s words, police lieutenant colonel demanded that he stop his activism with the Other Russia coalition. Trifonov, in Vladimir’s words, stated that he would share the fate of the killed Stradymov and Chervochkin. He made that point saying that they would have to follow the methods of their colleagues in Moscow Region as Vladimir comes from Moscow. He also reminded Vladimir of a case when another nazbol from Nizhny Novgorod, Evgenij Lygin, got his nose broken while he was on the way to his work. He also threatened Vladimir with a criminal case opened on him. Thus, this part of the threat is being implemented now.

We remind that Vladimir Zinkovskiy started to receive threats after he had refused to become the FSB informer. It happened on January 26, 2009, when a few FSB officers came to café where Zinkovskiy works and demanded that he inform them about all actions planned by the opposition. When refused, they threatened that he would face consequences soon.