Nazism found in Free Ingria
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Free Ingria coordinator Dmitry Vitushkin was arrested in St. Petersburg. The community advocates the transformation of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region into the autonomous republic of Ingria (aka Ingria). Mr. Vitushkin is the administrator of the Ingermanlandia network community. Employees of Center “E” saw in his records “falsification of historical facts” and justification of Nazism. Allegedly, the public post was posted back in December last year. The case was opened on October 12.
Employees of the department for countering extremism suspected St. Petersburg resident Dmitry Vitushkin of justifying Nazism on the Internet (part 2 and part 4 of article 354.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The release of the regional headquarters states that the 39-year-old local historian posted comments in the Ingermanlandia community he administers “with text rehabilitating Nazism, which are a denial and falsification of historical facts established by the International Tribunal in Nuremberg,” and also “posted comments discrediting the liberation Leningrad from the fascist blockade.” The article provides for a sanction of up to five years in prison.
According to the police, we are talking about a recording in the Ingermanlandia community dated December 17, 2022. In the public on this date, you can now only find a post about a participant in the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939–1940 (also known as the Winter War), Finnish sniper Simo Hayha, where Soviet soldiers are called occupiers.
Journalist and publicist, historian and local historian, as well as a well-known supporter of the concept of modern regionalism in Ingria in St. Petersburg, 39-year-old Dmitry Vitushkin was detained by security forces on Thursday, October 12, in his apartment on Pskovskaya Street and placed in a temporary detention center.
On Friday evening, the St. Petersburg resident was taken to the Oktyabrsky District Court to choose a preventive measure. There, at the request of the investigation, his sent in a pre-trial detention center for two months. The accused and the defense attorney objected: they asked for a ban on certain actions or house arrest, but the court sided with the investigator.
In 2015, the coordinator of the “Free Ingria” community already came to the attention of Center “E” for the publication “Ingria is the norm.” Then lawyer Ilya Remeslo contacted the authorities, who saw in the article calls for a violent seizure of power and violation of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation. However, in the expert report, the police did not find any corpus delicti in the text.
Dmitry Vitushkin worked as a journalist for Fashion Radio, Radio Baltika, the VOT! city.
Like-minded people of Dmitry Vitushkin, who share the idea of granting broad autonomy to the Nevsky region, are confident that the post that became the reason for persecution is only a formal reason for the detention of the historian.
“We are all local historians, no one holds radical views, no one planned sabotage or coups,” said Mikhail Voitenkov, an expert on the topic of Ingria, who in 2017 himself became a defendant in the case of the so-called “5/11/17 revolution” (a slogan banned in RF terrorist organization “Artpodgotovka”). “It’s just that any point of view different from the official one can be perceived as sedition.” He emphasized that “Free Ingria” is not a movement, but rather a subculture.
A longtime acquaintance of the historian Vitushkin, St. Petersburg writer Alexander Pelevin, in a conversation with Kommersant, said that the local historian can hardly be called a supporter of radical views. “Despite the fact that Dmitry and I stand on completely opposite positions, it was always possible to talk with him, unlike many of his other like-minded people. He was never a hypocrite and is sincere in his beliefs,” the writer emphasized. Mr. Pelevin noted that, in his opinion, the security forces “would be better off catching real saboteurs.”
This is not the first time that law enforcement agencies are interested in the activities of the Ingrians. In May 2016, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation excited a criminal case against the administrator of one of the thematic groups, Artem Chebotarev. And in July 2017, the Free Ingria website was included by Roskomnadzor in the register of prohibited resources.
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