Socialist-Revolutionary recalled connection with Navalnists
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The Presidium of the central council of “A Just Russia – For Truth” removed acting. O. the head of the regional branch of the party in Udmurtia, Dmitry Begishev, from the leadership of the cell. The reason was his recognition as involved in the activities of the local headquarters of oppositionist Alexei Navalny (the network of headquarters is recognized as an extremist organization and banned in the Russian Federation), in particular due to his participation in a rally in January 2021. The Social Revolutionaries regret that their comrade found himself “in such circumstances” and are not going to expel him from the party.
On February 28, the Supreme Court of Udmurtia upheld the decision of the Ustinovsky District Court of Izhevsk to recognize Dmitry Begishev as involved in the activities of an extremist organization. As follows from the data on the court’s website, the district prosecutor filed a claim to establish this fact in May 2023. He received information that Mr. Begishev, who was running for elections to the State Council (parliament) of the republic in 2022 from A Just Russia – For Truth (SRZP), was “involved in the activities” of local supporters of Alexei Navalny.
Let us note that in those elections the Socialist-Revolutionary was deregistered, but not for his connection with the Navalists, but for the fact that he remained a member of another party, the Green Alternative. Mr. Begishev is generally known for frequently changing parties: since 2018, he headed the regional branch of Parnassus, in 2020 he ran for the Izhevsk City Duma from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and in 2021 he was elected as a deputy in the Kiyasovsky district of Udmurtia from the Green Alternative.
In confirmation of Dmitry Begishev’s connection with extremist structures, the prosecutor cited the fact of his participation in an unauthorized rally on January 23, 2021, which was organized by supporters of Alexei Navalny after the oppositionist was detained upon his return from Germany. According to photographs and testimony, Mr. Begishev distributed “flags, posters and banners” to the participants of the procession in front of the administration of Izhevsk, for which he received 70 hours of compulsory labor under Art. 20.2 of the Administrative Code (violation of the established procedure for holding a rally).
In addition, on social networks there is a photograph of a “meeting” of Mr. Navalny’s supporters together with the coordinator of the Izhevsk cell, Ivan Eliseev, at which the prosecutor “noted the presence” of Dmitry Begishev. All this together gave the representative of the supervisory agency grounds to assert that the Socialist Revolutionary Party was involved in the activities of “Navalny’s headquarters” (the network of headquarters is recognized as an extremist organization and is banned in the Russian Federation).
In the district court, Mr. Begishev insisted that he had nothing to do with the Navalnists; during the action on January 23, he carried the Russian tricolor, and he ended up in the photo with Mr. Eliseev by accident – he was just walking around Izhevsk. However, neither the first instance nor the Supreme Court of Udmurtia believed such argumentation.
According to a copy of the resolution of the presidium of the central council of the SRZP, which appeared on Telegram after the court decision, Dmitry Begishev was not only removed from the duties of the head of the Udmurt branch of the party, but also removed from the council of the regional branch. Mr. Begishev himself refused to comment to Kommersant on the decisions of the court and the party leadership.
The head of the apparatus of the Udmurt branch of the SRZP, Andrey Blinov, confirmed to Kommersant the authenticity of the published document. According to him, the decision regarding Dmitry Begishev was made on March 1. “The position of the presidium on this issue is logical, since Dmitry Begishev’s involvement in the activities of an extremist organization was upheld in the Supreme Court, and this already has more serious political consequences. At the same time, he remains a member of the party, the head of the Izhevsk city branch. The man worked sincerely and openly. But I found myself in such circumstances,” said Mr. Blinov.
He also recalled that the regional branch of the party remains without a leader for the second time in the last year. Since December 2021, the SRZP in Udmurtia has been headed by State Duma deputy Vadim Belousov. In 2022, he was nominated by the party as a candidate for the post of head of Udmurtia, but in August 2022 he was found guilty of accepting a bribe in the amount of 3.25 billion rubles. (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The court sentenced the deputy in absentia to ten years in a maximum security colony; he was put on the wanted list. The case was later sent for a new trial. In April 2023, it became known that… O. Dmitry Begishev was appointed head of the Udmurt branch of SRZP.
It is expected that the central council will quickly decide on the new leader of the Udmurt Right Russia. Among the likely candidates for the party is the head of the faction in the State Council of Udmurtia, Igor Strelkov.
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