Father drew a term – Newspaper Kommersant No. 36 (7481) dated 03/02/2023
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The investigating authorities of the Tula region detained 53-year-old businessman Alexei Moskalev in a criminal case of discrediting the army. The security forces drew attention to a resident of the city of Efremov after his sixth-grader daughter drew an anti-war drawing with the flags of the Russian Federation and Ukraine at an art lesson. Alexey Moskalev was fined 32 thousand rubles. for a post on social networks, and then opened a criminal case, threatening a three-year prison term. Lawyers are counting on a reprieve for Mr. Moskalev so that his daughter is not sent to an orphanage.
53-year-old businessman Aleksey Moskaleva (who was engaged in breeding pheasants, peacocks and other ornamental birds) was detained on March 1 on his way to work, his daughter Maria Moskaleva said. “The police came home with him, they took him away, and they told me: ‘Wait for guardianship,’” sixth-grader Maria Moskaleva told the volunteers. Her father brings her up alone, the girl’s mother lives in another city. Aleksey Moskalev was detained by investigators in accordance with Art. 91 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, said his lawyer Vladimir Bilienko.
Law enforcement officers drew attention to the family of Aleksey Moskalev in April 2022 – after a lesson in fine arts in the sixth grade of Efremov school No. 9: Maria Moskaleva drew a woman with a child, flags of Ukraine and the Russian Federation and flying rockets. The school administration complained to the police, and Masha’s father “began to be examined under a magnifying glass” by employees of the ICR “and other law enforcement organizations,” Vladimir Biliyenko told Kommersant. The next day, the sixth-grader was taken straight from school with her father to the police. The authorities read “notations about the improper upbringing of the child,” Alexei Moskalev told OVD-Info (included in the register of foreign agents). A day later, the businessman was summoned to the FSB, where they offered to send his daughter to “some kind of youth team in support of the Russian troops,” but Alexey Moskalev, as he claims, refused. Earlier, the director of school No. 9 in the city of Efremova, Larisa Trofimova, assured that no one called the police because of the drawing of a sixth-grader, called Alexei Moskalev’s words “provocative statements” and clarified that his daughter “did not attend school for almost a year.”
On April 25, 2022, the Efremov Interdistrict Court fined the entrepreneur 32,000 rubles. for “public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation” (under Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).
IN court order it is said that the reason for this was a comment on the Odnoklassniki social network: “The Russian army. The perpetrators are with us.” “He pointed out the rape of Ukrainian girls by Russian servicemen,” the court ruling says.
And at the end of December 2022, the police of the city of Efremov opened a criminal case on discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation under Art. 280.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (initiated in case of repeated violation of the Code of Administrative Offenses during the year). Three days after that, a search was carried out in the apartment of Alexei Moskalev. Then the case was transferred to the Investigative Committee and on March 1 they detained him, said Vladimir Bilienko. The lawyer found it difficult to clarify the grounds for initiating a case, citing that he had “not seen the materials” yet. According to some reports, another post in Odnoklassniki could be the reason. Now in the profile of Alexei Moskalev in this social network, only publications for 2014–2015 are available, and eight people are listed as subscribers. According to part 1 of Art. 280.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, Alexei Moskalev faces a fine of 300 thousand rubles, arrest for up to six months or imprisonment for up to three years. “He is in the detention center assigned to the UK, investigative measures are scheduled for March 2,” the lawyer said.
The head of the inter-municipal department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs “Efremovskiy” Andrey Aksenov forwarded “Kommersant” for comments to the regional center. Andrey Yartsev, head of the Information Department of the Russian Interior Ministry’s Tula Region Department, said that the Investigative Committee was dealing with Alexei Moskalev’s case. Elizaveta Dolgushina, senior assistant to the head of the investigative department of the Russian Investigative Committee for the Tula region, said that she “could not comment on the businessman’s case yet, and also clarify what preventive measure was chosen for him.
Maria Moskaleva was sent to a shelter for the duration of the trial. Vladimir Bilienko believes that in the event of deprivation of liberty, Aleksey Moskalev will be able to count on a reprieve from punishment under Art. 82 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, since “she brings up a child alone, the mother lives in another city and does not take care of her daughter.”
Eva Merkacheva, a member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, points out that although Art. 82 of the Code of Criminal Procedure can be applied to any of the parents, the norm is considered “female” due to the fact that fathers are less likely to raise children alone. However, even for women, this article “is applied extremely rarely in Russia,” Ms. Merkacheva points out: “As for men, I have such cases (delays.— “b”) I don’t remember.
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