Former military psychologist Timofey Rudenko has been detained on criminal charges for commenting about Chechen separatists online, Mediazona cites the case file.
The document says the comments behind the criminal charges were posted between 29 April and 1 May 2022 by a user named Maymul Maymulovich in a Telegram channel that goes by the name Crimea is the Land of Partisan Glory that covers military action and sabotage in Crimea.
The comments itself are not attached to the document. The Investigative Committee believes they “justify the actions of illegal armed formations, such as the supporters of Dzhokhar Dudayev, who acted in Chechnya in the past and now fight against Russia’s Armed Forces in Ukraine”.
The agency claims that Rudenko used the Maymul Maymulovich name to “call for committing terror attacks and sabotage against the bodies of state power of the Russian Federation”.
Rudenko is a former military psychologist; he quit service several years ago.
In May 2022, law enforcement officers stormed his apartment. The man said that they demanded he confess to being involved in terrorist activities and preparing to commit terrorist acts in Moscow and other places in Russia, all while torturing him. He was not formally charged with any kind of terrorism. Rudenko himself said that in 2022 he had published a post on social media in which he had condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine and had written several anti-war comments on Telegram.
According to his mother Yulia, the law enforcement officers found a black marker and used it to leave marks on her son’s body. “He had swastikas on his chest, on his face, and arms,” she previously told Kholod. That was the appearance he had when he was brought to a police station for the first time, after which he was arrested under the petty hooliganism article three times in a row.
After being released, the man departed Moscow for the Tver region and began saving money for a trip to Kyrgyzstan. On 18 May 2023, he was going to fly to Bishkek but he was detained at the entry to the airport and taken to a police station.
According to Rudenko, in the car, the officers used an stun gun against him and started going through his phone, threatened to rape him and his girlfriend, whose photos they found on his phones. Then Rudenko was arrested on five more occasions.
