Poet and organizer of creative gatherings at the monument to Vladimir Mayakovsky in Moscow, Artem Kamardin, became the country’s first defendant in a criminal case on “calls for action directed against the security” of the Russian Federation. Writes about this “Kommersant”.
The publication clarifies that this is a new article introduced into the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in July 2022, along with amendments to the articles on espionage and “confidential cooperation” with foreign intelligence services.
According to Kamardin’s lawyer Leonid Solovyov, his client is charged with “organizing the recitation” of poems about mobilization – an event where third parties urged “not to take summons” and “not to go to the military registration and enlistment offices.”
The newspaper recalls that 29-year-old Kamardin has been in the Butyrka pre-trial detention center since September 2022. The man is accused of inciting hostility towards the social group “participants in hostilities in the LPR and DPR.”
The criminal case was initiated after the Mayakovsky Readings on September 23, 2022. Later, Kamardin was charged with “calling for activities directed against the security of the state” by an organized group. As the lawyer said Pavel Chikov, the charges were filed for poetry with a call to evade mobilization.
According to Solovyov, the investigation should be completed “in the near future” and the defense “has yet to figure out how to deal with this new article.”
Source: Rosbalt
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