Early this morning, Yekaterinburg police arrived at the house of Alexey Mosin, the leader of the local branch of Memorial, detained him, and took him to the police station where he was charged with “discreditation of military” twice, Memorial reports.
“Mosin was put in a police car and taken to the warehouse of the Yeltsin Center, where the papers of Memorial are now stored, in order to pick up the constituent documents of Memorial’s legal entities,” the historian’s colleagues said.
After that, Mosin was taken to the police department. The reason behind the “discrediting of military” charges was the documents published on the website of the Ural Memorial. It is noted that more than 100 scans are attached to the case files.
“In particular, the publications in question are the statement of the Yekaterinburg Memorial and the statement of the board of the liquidated International Memorial on 24 February 2023, on the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the statement on the anniversary of Boris Nemtsov’s death, and many others,” Memorial says.
It has to be noted that Mosin does not run the website and has no access to it.