To: Mr. Lluis Maria De Puig, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

To: Mr. Joao Soares, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

To: Mr. Andreas Gross, Chairman of the PACE Committee on Legal Issues and Human Rights

To: Ms. Sabina Loithoizer-Shnarrenberger, Delegate of the PACE, ex-Minister of Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany,

July 2, 2009

Circumstances of the Based on Political Motives Lawsuit on the Case of Grigoriy Grabovoy

I. The history of the lawsuit.

Constitutive congress of political party DRUGG took place on 17th March 2006,in the RF. The Congress officially started this political party. G.P.Grabovoy was elected the chairman of the party and declared at the congress that he was going to run for the Presidency of Russia in 2008. On 20th March 2006 the Prosecutor’s office of c. of Moscow (deputy of the public prosecutor Nikonov M. E) instituted legal proceedings against the leader of the political party “DRUGG” G.P.Grabovoy. A complaint of journalist V.Vorsobin and newspaper publications served the basis of institution of legal proceeding. Information in the articles had been checked before and the prosecutor’s office, the same Mr. Nikonov, had rejected institution of legal proceedings on 17th January 2006. On 5th April of 2006 Moscow public prosecutor’s office’s officers detained G.P. Grabovoy with violations of legal norms. On 7th April 2006 the prosecutor’s office of c. of Moscow instituted criminal proceedings against G.P.Grabovoy and ordered imprisonment as a preventive measure. On 7th July 2008 Tagansky district court of city of Moscow convicted G.P.Grabovoy and sentenced him to 11 years of imprisonment in a common regime colony. This term exceeded the highest limit of the sanction indicated in the Criminal Code related article. On 15th October 2008 the accusatory sentence was changed and Moscow city appeal court sentenced to punishment of 8 years of imprisonment in a colony of common regime. On 15th September 2006 the Congress of political party DRUGG of RF acknowledged Grabovoy G.P. to be a political prisoner who was subjected to political repressions. On 20th August 2008 a group of Russian human rights activists headed by a former political prisoner Trepashkin M.I., by the leader of committee “For the Civil Rights” Babushkin A.V., by expert an of the Association of the Public ______Circumstances of the Based on Political Motives Lawsuit on the Case of Grigoriy Grabovoy 1/20 Movement “For the Rights of Man” V.V.Stepanov, By the lawyer, PhD, a member of the International Union of Journalists V.I. Sergeyev and others signed a petition to the International Amnesty and Human Rights Watch asking to acknowledge G.P.Grabovoy a political prisoner subjected to political repressions. On 24th July 2008 the Committee on Human Rights of the Republic of Tatarstan sent an appeal to the prosecutor’s office for the judicial examination requesting “Rehabilitation of G.P.Grabovy and members of political party DRUGG as the victims of political repressions”. On 02.02.2009 the North Western Interregional Social Fund on protection of the rights of prisoners recognized G.P.Grabovoy to be a political prisoner subjected to political repressions.

II. Substantiation of the political motives of the criminal case.

2.1. Unjustified institution of criminal proceedings On 29.03.2005 the Ministry of Justice of RF in line with the law registered the Organizational Committee of Political Party DRUGG in the RF, registration # 11/6-34. The chronology of the events confirms availability of political motives of the charges on the current case. Thus, the resolution on institution of criminal proceedings against G.P.Grabovoy, was signed on 20th March, 2006, three days after conduction of the Constituent Congress of Political Party DRUGG in Moscow on 17th March 2006. G.P.Grabovoy was arrested on 5th April 2006, two weeks after the foundation of a federal political party and conduction of the congress attended by 300 delegates who represented interests of the citizens from 73 regions of Russia. Several newspaper articles reporting that G.P.Grabovoy allegedly promised to revive the children perished during Beslan tragedy served the basis for the institution of the criminal proceedings. The resolution on the institution of the criminal proceedings included the following substantiation of the criminal case: “in connection with the publications in the printed editions of “Izvestiya” and “Komsomolskaya Pravda” of articles “It is cruel to use us in such a state.” and “Psychic Grabovoy promises to the mothers of Beslan to resurrect their children” (Vol. 1, page 1). The mentioned above facts and the motives of institution of the criminal proceedings were not confirmed by the court and proved to be contrary to the facts. The criminal proceedings instituted on 20.03.2006 by the deputy of the Public Prosecutor of Moscow M.E. Nikonov were based on the same motives which were used by M.E.Nikonov on 17 th January 2006 to dismiss the criminal complaint. The order on dismissal of the criminal case contained the following: “Thus, the facts stated in the article of “Izvestiya” newspaper were not confirmed by the check. There are no impartial data confirming that G.P.Grabovoy personally or with somebody’s help illegally took possession of other persons’ property. … The legitimacy of the Organization Committee of Political Party “DRUGG” is confirmed by the Registration in the Federal Registration Service on 30.03.2005. Information about the intention to create political party “DRUGG” was published on 22.04.2005 in “Russian newspaper” # 84 (3753). Thus, the requirements of art. 12 of the Federal Law On Political Parties” were observed”. The mentioned above circumstances confirm that institution of the criminal proceedings was unjustified, illegal and show the availability of a possible political order for institution of the criminal proceedings. ______Circumstances of the Based on Political Motives Lawsuit on the Case of Grigoriy Grabovoy 2/20 Indirectly the circumstances of political motives of the case are confirmed by the fact that before the institution of the proceedings the check of the activities of G.P.Grabovoy and the Fund of Grigoriy Grabovoy organized by law-enforcement agencies revealed no violations of law. (Resolution of IAD of CAD [Internal affairs department of the Central Administrative District] of Moscow of 24.06.2005 on dismissal of the criminal complaint related to G.P.Grabovoy, Resolution of the Prosecutor’s office of Moscow of 30.09.2005 on dismissal of the criminal complaint related to G.P.Grabovoy. Only political will of certain state officials can force the agencies of criminal prosecution in spite of the carried out examination which did not reveal any violations of law to institute criminal proceedings overriding the norms of law and human rights. The criminal proceedings were instituted without an event and components of crime. Criminal repressions on this case actually included the entire well-known to the world community arsenal of measures of coercion, state mechanisms of deprivation of freedom, the limitation of human rights and freedoms, threats related to life and health of G.P.Grabovoy and members of Political Party “DRUGG”, extensive usage of state mass media, psychiatric institutions. The illegal criminal persecution formed a situation due to which Political Party “DRUGG” was not able to conduct the required public actions for the final state registration. This is a violation of constitutional rights and international rights of man and citizen to participate in the public associations and to creation of political parties. This is one more confirmation of existence of political repressions.

2.2. Some violations of law during the investigation.

G.P.Grabovoy was subjected to arbitrary arrest and was imprisoned based on the far-fetched reasons stated in some newspaper articles. The mentioned information from the articles was never confirmed. All so-called 11 counts of swindle G.P.Grabovoy was charged with “were committed under undetermined by the investigation circumstances by G.P.Grabovoy … together with undetermined persons (pages 1-2 of the sentence of Taganskiy district court of Moscow of 7th July 2008)”. The investigation actions were carried out with violations of law. On 17th August 2006 Khamovnicheskiy district court of c of Moscow resolved that the inspector of the prosecutor’s office M.S.Breev carried out all investigation actions within G.P.Grabovoy’s case with violation of G.P.Grabovoy’s rights to protection. Judge E. Ivanova expressed her opinion in relation to this criminal case and political motivation on the case at a court session. Based on the audio record transcript of the court session of 12th March 2008 made by a witness Gorbushina N.A. “ “Judge Ivanova, “Let’s clear out, why the investigator issued the indictment. Attorney Makarov, For his intention to run for presidency. Judge Ivanova: Didn’t you carry out investigation on the current case related to the fact that Grigoriy Petrovich was going to run for presidency? Inspector of Breyev, You know and I think that if Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin had said that “my successor will be Grigoriy Petrovich Grabovoy”, the people would elect, without a moment's hesitation, despite the place he is staying in. ______Circumstances of the Based on Political Motives Lawsuit on the Case of Grigoriy Grabovoy 3/20 Judge Ivanova: Yes.” G.P.Grabovoy was charged with 11 counts of swindle though all so-called victims didn’t apply to the police based on their own decision but when they heard a call over TV 1st Channel to get back money paid at the educational seminars of G.P.Grabovoy and thus compensate the damage. None of the so- called victims filed a civil claim to the court demanding return of money paid for the seminar. The court didn’t take into consideration the statements of hundreds of other participants of the seminars, who witnessed that G.P.Grabovoy was not guilty and spoke to protect him. More than hundred witnesses of defense were not listened to by the court, despite the official petition of the defense lawyer. Thus the right for just consideration and right for interrogation of witnesses on the part of the defendant were violated. (The petition of the defense lawyer V.Konev about the examination of the witnesses of defense of 31.05.2008, Vol.17, page 125 of the case) Actually all so-called victims did not have any documents confirming, that they had suffered material damage and that they spent some money. The court did not consider whether the cash spent by the victims for specific work in the course of the educational seminars of G.P.Grabovoy was directly related to G.P.Grabovoy. The audit conducted on 12th May 2008 didn’t find any confirmations of receipt of the money by G.P.Grabovoy. “the materials of the case actually do not contain financial confirmation of receipt of money by G.P.Grabovoy for conducted by him author’s seminars and meetings (page 56 of the court sentence). The court didn’t consider that actually civil-law relations provided in Art. 2 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation were examined within the criminal procedures. According to the materials of the criminal case the victims bought tickets from IBWFLE “Kalashnikov A.V.” organization, (an individual businessman without formation of the legal entity) for the participation in the author's seminars of Grabovoy G.P. The total number of violations of law just by distortion of the minutes of judicial sessions by the judges noted by the lawyers made 2365 (see the petition to the supervisory court of attorney Konev V.G. № 49 - 10607/2008 of 28th November 2008 in 16 volumes)! The prosecutor’s office and the court raised all possible difficulties and admitted violations in order to hinder comprehensive and substantiated protection of G.P.Grabovoy. In the course of the session the officers of the punitive bodies took away court decisions, verdict and other documents on the case in order to hider the process of protection (petition of G.P.Grabovoy # 311 C of 23rd April 2007., vol.9, page 215). During the entire period of custody hundreds of petitions of citizens to the General Prosecutor’s office of the RF (confirmed by the information of the web-site of Charter DRUGG) remained unanswered or were left out of investigation. Dozens of petitions and complaints of G.P.Grabovoy (with the facts confirmed by court resolutions) addressed to the Public Prosecutor General of the RF requiring of organization of investigation and brining actions against guilty persons were not answered either (see: the complaint of G.P.Grabovoy to the Public Prosecutor General of RF of 16 th October of 2006). This information confirms the facts of political motives of the current case. In the course of preliminary investigation and court sessions they created torture conditions of keeping in the cell for a long time. In particular on 30th May 2008 judge E.Ivanova continued the ongoing ______Circumstances of the Based on Political Motives Lawsuit on the Case of Grigoriy Grabovoy 4/20 examination of G.P.Grabovoy till 11PM though it is forbidden by law! After the request of the defendant to end the examination since he actually did not sleep on the previous several days (he was transported to the prison after midnight, got into his cell after 5 AM and at 6AM they took him out of the cell for examination, they didn’t provide his meals during those days), the judge rejected the request and only the call of the ambulance ceased the torture during that day (complaint of G.P.Grabovoy # 922C 30.09.2008 Vol. 49, page 23). The broad sections of the public knew about the anti-terrorist activities of G.P.Grabovoy. This information is confirmed by the materials of the case. In the course of the preliminary investigation G.P.Grabovoy was deliberately placed by the authorities into the same cell which was occupied by terrorist Panarin M., who pleaded guilty of killing many people as a result of organized by him terrorist actions near the metro station Rizhskaya and metro station Paveletskaya in Moscow. Panarin M. was aware about the anti-terrorist activities of Grabovoy G.P. (Complaint of G.P.Grabovoy to Moscow regional prosecutor’s office of 10th November 2006, outgoing No from СИ № 2 ФСИН № of 10/61/5/ [G]-133/2383).

2.3. Threat to life and threat of criminal persecution related to the members of political party DRUGG.

Lives of several members of political party “DRUGG” and leaders of regional departments of political party “DRUGG” from Moscow, Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, Belgorod, Kaliningrad and other cities were threatened. They were subjected to political repressions. On June 24th 2006 several officers of economic police of Belgorod came to the office of Z.N.Zakolodnaya they presented an order on check of economic activities and committed an unauthorized search with massacre. Z.N.Zakolodnaya was deprived of right to defense, she was threatened that they would put on handcuffs, undress her and carry out personal inspection. Witnesses of search signed blank sheets of paper and so on. A TV operator of a local TV channel was present at the search. The same day TV program “Criminal news” showed some information about Z.N.Zakolodnaya provided with negative comments. She was called a charlatan who had no any accounting or financial documents. The same way as in the case with G.P.Grabovoy mass media and TV formed “the language of hostility” related to the entire social group, i.e. Political Party “DRUGG” in the RF. In June 2006 Z.N. Zakolodnaya by phone (the same way as G.P.Grabovoi via Internet) was threatened with murder. Z.N. Zakolodnaya visited the local officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who showed her the name and surname of the person who threatened by phone. However the official reply mentioned quite a different person and address. Complaints and petitions of Z.N. Zakolodnaya based on the above incidents were not considered to the point the same way as in the case of G.P.Grabovoi and remained unanswered or were considered just nominally. This information testifies to the fact of political repressions against followers of G.P.Grabovoi and members of Political Party “DGUGG”. Actually the verdict on the case of G.P. Grabovoy announced political repressions towards all the members of Political Party DRUGG, since the criminal case related to them was isolated into an independent procedure. The sentence of Tagansky district court (pages 1-2) ascertained that “under

______Circumstances of the Based on Political Motives Lawsuit on the Case of Grigoriy Grabovoy 5/20 undefined by the investigation circumstances Grabovoi G.P. entered a criminal conspiracy with undefined persons; the case related to them was isolated into a separate procedure (vol. 3, pages 284-286 of the case). Taking into account that the sentence was based on the Conclusion of the Complex Social - Psychological Judicial Examination (page 11 of the mentioned above sentence), which called the members of political party “DRUGG” a criminal group, a conclusion could follow that the members of political party “DRUGG” were subjected to criminal political repressions. The charges filed with G.P.Grabovoy based on part 4 of art. 159 of Criminal Code of the RF, swindling committed by a group of persons, confirm the fact of political repressions related to thousands of members of political party “DRUGG”. The prosecutors, as a charging party, were not able to provide any fact of accusation of the group of persons, nevertheless they did not turn down the charges based on part 4 of art. 159 of Criminal Code of the RF. The court determined all persons related to the counts of charges against G.P.Grabovoy, however didn’t find any violations of law in their actions. Since court maintains the charges against G.P.Grabovoy based on part 4 of art 159 of Criminal Code of the RF the bodies of criminal persecution actually render political persecution and express the threat of criminal persecution of the members of political party “DRUGG”.

2.4. Organization of psychiatric persecution.

In order to deprive G.P. Grabovoy of possibility to protect himself by repeated filing of petitions Tagansky district court of Moscow on 19th June 2007 ordered to conduct a stationary forensic complex psychological-psychiatric examination of accused G.P.Grabovoy. The court order was not based on the law. It presents a fact of unjustified placement of a person based on decision of courts and non-judicial bodies to psychiatric institutions according to art. 3, point “c” of the Federal Law “On rehabilitation of the victims of political repressions”. The court could indicate neither a reason nor a fact testifying to some alleged actions of the accused which could call in question his mental condition. The basis for the judgment was G.P.Grabovoy’s active protection of himself, “accused Grabovoy G. P. has many times declared various complaints on the case; the essence and sense of these complaints could hardly be understood”. On 10th September 2007 Moscow municipal court dismissed and recognized illegal the order on appointment of complex forensic psychological- psychiatric examination. Thus the appeal court by its order confirmed the fact of violation of rights of G.P.Grabovoy to protection and a fact of political repressions.

2.5. Intimidation by threats to life and health of G.P.Grabovoy.

Officers of the state agencies of criminal prosecution expressed threats related directly to life and health of G.P.Grabovoy. These threats are real confirmations of political repressions. An officer of the Office of Public Prosecutor who carried out criminal prosecution, M.S.Breev, repeatedly voiced threats to life and health addressed G.P.Grabovoy. On 9th June 2006 investigator Breev M. S., attorney Tokarev E.V. being present, declared to the accused G.P.Grabovoy who was in the investigation centre: “You oughtn’t to be so quiet. You will not survive the court”. Investigation officer of anti-organized criminality department of CAD of Moscow G.Ganeev declared, “So, you will not become the President of Russia”. Investigator Breev M. S. used blackmail and intimidation towards Grabovoy

______Circumstances of the Based on Political Motives Lawsuit on the Case of Grigoriy Grabovoy 6/20 G.P. telling him that he had been visited by representatives of the victims on the criminal case who showed the knife they were going to kill G.P.Grabovoy with. Due to persecution on political reasons no one ever tried to check the mentioned information about the threat to life. The complaint of G.P.Grabovoi of 10th November 2006 to Moscow regional Office of Public Prosecutor on this issue had not been considered. We possess an official document confirming the above mentioned facts of threats on the part of M.S.Breev. This is the Resolution Khamovnichesky district court of Moscow of 17 th August 2006 which recognized that Breev M. S. violated the rights of G.P.Grabovoy to protection, intimidated him with severe articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. A threat to life of G.P.Grabovoy, and indirectly to members of Political Party “DRUGG” had been publicly declared through the Internet in 2006. Strizhak M.G., a legal representative of G.P.Grabovoy, sent a complaint addressed to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation on 2nd October 2006. The complaint was related to the threat to life of G.P.Grabovoy, which she received to her e-mail box, “To all followers of Grigoriy Grabovoy! We, the undersigned, declare to you that by the decision of the court of Shariat and current blood feud law Grigoriy Grabovoy is sentenced to death. The sentence will be executed as soon as possible. Total 21 signatures”. The same threat at the same time was received by several other supporters of G.P.Grabovoy. The complaints of M.G.Strizhak and G.P.Grabovoy related to the issue submitted on 10th November 2006 hadn’t been considered. Unwillingness of the state law enforcement bodies to consider tha compant on this fact proves availability of political motives of this case. Regularly till present the family of G.P.Grabovoy have been receiving threats to their life and health, including threats to life and health of his wife and children. The law enforcement bodies do not consider the complaints. Refusal from consideration of complaints confirms the presence of political motives of the criminal case. One more confirmation of the mentioned above circumstances is Resolution of Khamovnichesky district court of Moscow which on 7th May 2007 allowed the appeal of Egereva E.B. (the wife of G.P.Grabovoy) about illegal actions of the investigator of the Office of Public Prosecutor of the Central Administrative District (CAD) of Moscow M.S.Breev and the public prosecutor of CAD of Moscow. The illegality of their actions was confirmed by the lack of the procedural decisions. This is an evidence of violation of law in conduction of the investigation by the officers of the prosecutor’s office.

2.6. Unjustified verdict of guilty

According to the sentence all so-called 11 counts of swindle G.P.Grabovoy was charged with “were committed under undetermined by the investigation circumstances …together with undetermined persons” (page 1-2 of the sentence of Tagansky district court of city of Moscow of 7 th July 2008 ). Exactly these and similar records make the mentioned above sentence to be similar to the acts of the extrajudicial violence of the epoch of objective imputation and repressions against political opponents of the past.

______Circumstances of the Based on Political Motives Lawsuit on the Case of Grigoriy Grabovoy 7/20 Without the event and components of the crime the court undertook any possible actions to convict G.P.Grabovoy. The conviction includes religious motives as well. This is beyond justice and legislation of Russia and international norms related to human rights. In particular, in all the counts of the charge the court inculpated G.P. Grabovoy with propagation of Christianity and belief in resurrection. “The victim bought the book, having read it she believed that resurrection of people was possible …” (page 23 of the mentioned above court sentence). This is violation of art. 28, p. 3, art 56 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation as well as of art 9 European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (freedom of thought, conscience and religion). By that G.P.Grabovoy is deprived of the right to freedom of the expression of opinion and as such art. 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms is violated. The court violated the right of G.P.Grabovoy to freedom of opinion, conscience and religion as well as the rights of tens of millions of Christians and Moslems in Russia. Actually the court ascertained that it denied the basis of Christianity and Islam in Russia and convicted for faith.

2.7. Informational terrorism in the course of the criminal procedure implemented by the government controlled mass media.

Institution of criminal proceedings and process of criminal prosecution were accompanied by unprecedented for Europe information influence on the society. Such actions of mass media can be described as informational terrorism and formation “of the language of hostility”, implemented by the government controlled mass media. Deceitful publications of the most popular newspapers of the country “Izvestiya” and “Komsomolskaya pravda” started the informational terror. The mentioned above newspapers and joined to them later program of the First channel “Man and Law” and the information agency Regnum belonging to the media holding “Gazprom -Media” The mentioned mass media are supervised directly by the highest authorities of the country. This is one more fact confirming political motives of the case. According to the data of the search engine of the internet site of “Komsomolskaya pravda” newspaper http://www.kp.ru of 1st July 2009 the newspaper issued 176 publications on the topic related to “Grabovoy”, which include information insulting human dignity and uncertain facts forming the negative image of G.P.Grabovoy. Taking into account that joint monthly print runs of the newspaper “Komsomolskaya pravda” reach 30 million copies, together with international publications and work of Internet portals the total print run of deceitful information made several hundred millions of copies! According to the data of the search engine of the internet site of “Izvestiya” http://www.izvestia.ru of 1st July 2009 the newspaper issued 92 publications on the topic related to “Grabovoy”, which include information insulting human dignity and uncertain facts forming the negative image of G.P.Grabovoy. According to the data of TNS Gallup Media “Izvestiya” newspaper is among the ten of the largest national newspapers: the audience of its one issue in 2007 was 369,9 thousand persons, plus the average number of 2009 – 385563 persons, those who daily look through the site of the newspaper http://www.liveinternet.ru/stat/izvestia.ru . The mentioned mass media publications made it possible to form “the language of hostility”, stir social and religious hatred, and to create false negative

______Circumstances of the Based on Political Motives Lawsuit on the Case of Grigoriy Grabovoy 8/20 public opinion, to misslead tens of millions of citizens of Russia and other countries, other mass media, community and offer pressure on the court. Taking into account that monthly number of readers of “Izvestiya” reaches several millions together with international publications and work of Internet portals the total print run of deceitful information made also several hundred millions of copies! The central state television channels “ORT” – 1st Channel and “RTR” – Russia, which have more than hundred million viewers and actually cover entire Russia, showed several dozens of specialized shows and news programs with false information forming “the language of hostility” and humiliating the human dignity of G.P.Grabovoy and members of political party DRUGG. According to the data of the most popular Internet search engines Yandex and Google: http://www.google.ru there are about seven thousands publications and news bulletins in the press and about 500 video clips about the activities of Grigoriy Grabovoy and the investigation of his case. The overwhelming majority of these topics were formed by V.Vorsobin, D.Sokolov and A.Pimanov and their other co-workers. These topics are of completely negative nature, they are nothing else than informational terror which forms negative public opinion. It is worth mentioning that the process of criminal prosecution and the peak of the false information activities coincided with the period, when community required President of Russia V.Putin to undertake meaningful actions for investigation of terrorist act in Beslan. Taking into consideration that the social protest with respect to the fault of the authorities for the Beslan tragedy was concentrated on V.Putin, we could assume that the shift of the public attention to G. Grabovoy could be an advantageous political motion of the authorities. For example, let’s consider the events of June of 2008. On 5th June 2008 newspaper “Kommersant” published an article “Vladimir Putin was accused of criminal negligence”. The article discussed the violations of the Criminal Code of the RF admitted by V.Putin since he was also responsible for the loss of people in Beslan. Exactly in June the judicial examination on the case of G.P.Grabovoy was stopped (according to the information from the web- site www.DRUGG.RU more than 100 witnesses of defense were not listened to by the court contrary to all laws). The majority of the central mass media controlled by the government of Russia distributed information that the prosecutor claimed 12 years of imprisonment for G.P.Grabovoy. This was actually one more distraction of community from the Beslan events and shift of the public attention from the accusation of authorities on the Beslan case to the case of G.Grabovoy. The refusal of the central state television channels and printed media to publish the information of a different nature on this case confirms a possibility of a political order in this case. After the institution of the criminal proceedings and publication in the newspaper “Izvestiya” of the lie about Beslan and P.Grabovoy, the chairwoman of the North Osetian Social Organization “Association of the Victims of the Terrorist Acts Mother of Beslan” Susanna Dudieva on 4th April of 2006 sent a petition to the editor in chief of the newspaper “Izvestiya”, in which she informed “The articles of your news-paper included slander about mothers of children perished in Beslan tragedy who so to say paid money for resurrection of their children to Academician Grigoriy Grabovoy…. I am the chair-woman of the committee “The Mothers of Beslan” and a witness of everything that happened in the c. of Beslan. I declare with full ______Circumstances of the Based on Political Motives Lawsuit on the Case of Grigoriy Grabovoy 9/20 responsibility that no mother of any child perished in Beslan tragedy paid money to Academician Grabovoy for resurrection of the deceased children. Moreover, neither Grigoriy Grabovoy, nor any of his disciples has ever visited the c. of Beslan.” The mentioned above circumstances testify to the fact of the total information attack on the citizens of Russia and other countries within the current criminal case. They used false information. These actions can be described as informational terrorism against the people of this state. The mentioned above state television networks and printed media covered information only from a limited perspective; it was advantageous for certain chief politicians of Russia. The coverage of information on the current case was accomplished with violation of the norms of human and journalistic ethics. They used false information and “language of hostility”. This confirms the presence of political motives in this case.

2.8. Judicial orders, which confirm the violations of rights of G.P.Grabovoy and the illegality of the criminal prosecution.

The Resolution of Khamovnichesky district court of Moscow of 10th July 2006 stated that M.S.Breev caused damage to the rights of accused G.P.Grabovoy and hampered the access of G.P.Grabovoy to justice. Khamovnichesky district court of Moscow of 17th August 2006 recognized that M.S.Breev violated the rights of G.P.Grabovoy to defense and intimidated him by heavy articles of the Criminal Code of the RF. Khamovnichesky district court of Moscow of 27th December of 2006 allowed the complaint of attorney Tokarev E.V. and acknowledged illegal inaction of the public prosecutor of the Central Administrative dictrict of Moscow inspector of the prosecutor’s office Breev M.S. when they were considering petitions submitted in protection of G.P.Grabovoy. Khamovnichesky district court of Moscow on 7th May 2007 allowed the appeal of Egereva E.B. (the wife of G.P.Grabovoy) about illegal actions of the investigator of the Office of Public Prosecutor of the Central Administrative District (CAD) of Moscow M.S.Breev and the public prosecutor of CAD of Moscow. The illegality of their actions was confirmed by the lack of the procedural decisions. This was an evidence of violation of law by the employees of the Office of Public Prosecutor during investigation. The cassation decision of the Judicial Board on Criminal Cases of the Moscow Municipal Court of 5 th March, 2008 confirmed the illegality of the actions of the public prosecutor of the Central Administrative District of Moscow and actions of the inspector of the Office of Public Prosecutor of the Central Administrative District of Moscow on the described currently criminal case. Khamovnicheskiy District Court of Moscow on 22nd August 2007 allowed the complaint of M.G. Strizhak about the illegal actions of the person working as the deputy of the public prosecutor of the Central Administrative District (CAD) of Moscow Gorshkov R.B., which were expressed in the absence of procedural decisions. The decision of the Court testified to violation of law during the investigation. The arbitration court of Kiev on 29th December 2007 resolved that institution of the criminal proceedings against Grabovoy was illegal, the arrest was illegal, the charges were illegal, order for conduction of examination was illegal, accusation was illegal.

______Circumstances of the Based on Political Motives Lawsuit on the Case of Grigoriy Grabovoy 10/20 The arbitration court of Kiev on 23rd of February 2008 resolved that institution of the criminal proceedings against Grabovoy was illegal, the arrest was illegal, the charges were unjustified since they were based on inadmissible proofs. We consider that such bad and cynical violations of the rights of G.P.Grabovoy and of his supporters within the criminal case procedures confirmed by the judicial resolutions could be implemented only due to a certain “order” and connivance on the part of some workers of the highest state bodies that confirm the fact of political motives of the case. 2.9. The authorities rewarded the persons who organized the criminal prosecution of G.Grabovoy.

An ordinary judge of Khamovnicheskiy District court of Moscow V.Danilkin who issued the illegal order for the arrest of G.P.Grabovoy soon became the chairman of Khamovnicheskiy District court. Currently he is considering another case with political motives, the case of M.Khodorkovskiy. The journalist of the newspaper “Izvestiya” Dmitriy Sokolov after a series of publications about G.Grabovoy in 2005 was awarded with a honorable journalist’s reward. According to D.Sokolov’s article of 25.03.2005 in which he reported with pride about himself “The author of the investigation of the activities of the sect Grabovoy Dmitriy Sokolov -Mitrich yesterday received “Gold gong -2004”. This is one of the most honorable journalists’ rewards in Russia. …. The judges of the competition recognized our special correspondent as the winner in a special nomination “For the cycle of publications about the activities of sectarians after Beslan tragedy”. The editor in chief and co-owner of the organized by special services information agency Regnum M.Kolerov who involved many regional mass media to the activities discrediting G.P.Grabovoy, after organization of slanderous articles about G.Grabovoy for the mentioned above activities as of March 2005 was enrolled in the administration of President V.Putin. A.Pimanov who was hosting the First channel show “Man and Law”, who only during a half of 2006 produced six telecasts in frankly caddish and degrading human dignity form in relation to G.Grabovoy and his supporters, still prospers on the First television channel, creating new programs with participation and support of the highest officials of the country. Till this very day of 2009 he has been going on mocking the victims of the act of terror in Beslan distributing the lie formed by his co-workers on the information terrorism. He is going on repeating that G.P.Grabovoy promised to resurrect children Beslan for the money. V. Vorsobin the journalist of “Komsomolskay pravda” who filed a complaint which served the basis for institution of the criminal case against G.P. Grabovoy and published dozens of slanderous articles in “Komsomolskay pravda” with thirty million print runs, based on his statement in the court received for the mentioned publications good fees and was honored with personal contacts with President V. Putin. He accompanied him in his business trips abroad. Attorney Makarov in the Tagansky district court asked him a question: “Your lawyer in Savyolovskiy court said that you traveled on business together with Putin in Italy. Is it true? ”, V. Vorsobin answered with a sense of satisfaction, “Yes”. In December 2008 an ordinary inspector of the prosecutor’s office of the Central Administrative District of Moscow Sinyushina E.A. who supported the infamous lie of the charges on the criminal case of G.Grabovoy jumped over one official rank, the prosecutor’s office of city of Moscow, became a ______Circumstances of the Based on Political Motives Lawsuit on the Case of Grigoriy Grabovoy 11/20 prosecutor of the General Prosecutor's office of Russia. Moreover she became not just an ordinary prosecutor, but again jumped over another couple of the official ranks, became the head of a department of the General Prosecutor's office. The indicated circumstances indirectly confirm the circumstances of political motives of the case.

2.10. Opinions of the representatives of mass media and community about political motives of the case of G.P.Grabovoy

Printed published edition of “Novaya Gazeta” of March 27 2008 #21 included an article “Good Lord!”, Is it really You?”. The author Yelena Milashina wrote “according to my information “approval” for arrest of Grabovoy two years ago was received exactly from Vladimir Putin”. Further on in this article Yelena Milashina informed about one of the reasons explaining why ex-president of RF Putin V.V. gave “approval” for the arrest of Grabovoy G.P.: “The number of followers gave Grabovoi an opportunity to declare about creation of social-political party “DRUGG” and intention to run for presidency in 2008. Grabovoy avoided adventures that happened after a similar statement of ex-mayor of Arkhangelsk A.Donskoy. … The omnipotent prosecutor’s office didn’t manage to find anyone from the “organized group of the persons”. However they managed to do it in the case with “Yukos”.” Thus, Elena Milashina reports that the criminal case of G.P.Grabovoy is a political order from the former President of the RF Putin. At the moment of the publication there was no verdict on the criminal case of G.P.Grabovoy, thus the author stated that the order was not accomplished as in the case with of ex-mayor of Arkhangelsk A.Donskoy and the head of Yukos M. Khodorkovskiy. Information about the presence of the political background of the criminal prosecution and conviction of G.P.Grabovoy was published in the printed edition of “Russian newspaper” of 8 th June 2008 # 144 (4701) by correspondent Nataliya Kozlova in the article “Term of resurrection”, “about the political background… the thing is that Grabovoy openly declared at his congress that he was going to run for the presidency of Russia in 2008” An issue of “Argumenty nedeli” of 3rd June 2008 # 27 (113) published an article of Constantine Gurdin, which said, “Immediately after the speech of Vladimir Putin in Tagansky court of Moscow the court hearings on the pending for a year case of Grigoriy Grabovoy resumed. … The state prosecutor demanded 12 years of imprisonment, … the fact is obvious, Mr. Putin is paying the obscurantists back”. There is one more confirmation that G.P.Grabovoy was convicted in order to distract the attention of the society from the impartial investigation of the act of terror in Beslan in order to preserve the reputation of Putin V.V. This is an article of Aleksander Prudnik of 1st June of 2008. “The main types of information veils”. A.Prudnik writes: “the trigger information veils, which switch over the public opinion from the event offering negative impact on the image of the authority, to be more exact, the image of authority which is artificially created by the mass media. This type of information veil is clearly seen within the analysis of information topics Beslan - Grigoriy Grabovoy””. Newspaper “Kommersant” of 8th July 2008 # 116 in article “Healing and punishment” said, “All these persecutions of Grabovoy are made to order farce and game, which proves once again what kind of justice we have”. This is the opinion of the leader of Committee “Mothers of Beslan” Susanna Dudieva, ______Circumstances of the Based on Political Motives Lawsuit on the Case of Grigoriy Grabovoy 12/20 “I consider that someone just wanted very much to connect the activities G.Grabovoy with the act of terror in Beslan”. The following was told on the radio station "Echo of Moscow" in the program "Separate opinion" on 7th July 2008 and published in the form of text on an Internet site http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/personalno/525245-echo.phtml : «M.Ganapolsky, – we together with our guest a well-known international observer of «Vremya novostei» Arcady Dubnov … A.Dubnov: … I traveled with president Putin in May last year. … traveled with the new Russian President …. They want me to perceive the situation as a state person. We had an informal communication there, I am not able to discuss it in public, this was a condition... M.Ganopolsky: I have a joyful event today. This is one I am going to read you about now.. Tagansky court of Moscow on Monday recognized healer Grigoriy Grabovoi guilty of all incriminated by investigation counts of swindle. He promised to bring back to life the children of Beslan. Rascal. A.Dubnov: For this I would certainly stop the moratorium on the death penalty, for inspiring honest people, mothers, parents of these children who were lost in Beslan with these hopes, he is not a human. I do not see anything human in him, I do not see in these attempts. Because if he thinks that he consoles that he replaces with religion, if it replaces with himself, sorry, belief in something, it…. M.Ganapolsky: So, let’s go on further. There is no Grabovoi, this person should be dissolved, he should disappear for 12 years. If in 12 years he is released without the right to be released he will got there again. I would kill him.” Web-site “Continent of media groups” in June 2009 posted an interview with a well-known woman journalist and human rights defender from Holland Larissa Volodimerova. She said “Even if we do not love rich persons this does not allow us to palter and to deny the fact that the cases of Khodorkovskiy or Grabovoy completely falsified; and only a fool is not able to see now that the genocide of our native old men, poor veterans, invalids, was planned at the state level”. http://www.kontinent.org/article_rus_4a4416055ba3c.html On 8th June 2009 the central newspaper of theRepublic of Mordovia “Capital C” http://stolica-s.su published the interview of colonel general of the aviation of Russia, the Hero of the Soviet Union N.Antoshkin who said: “I think that all the problems of Grabovoy began when he got into big policy. I am not able to judge what happened there. I know only that in the time of our collaboration we succeeded in saving dozens of pilots and enormous quantity of equipment”. An author, PhD, president of the Fund, Arkadiy Petrov in his interview to journalists declared: “The mothers Beslan arrive to Moscow, express protest, ask to stop spreading slander and not to accuse G.P.Grabovoy of swindling on their behalf. Their attempts to file a lawsuit and their protests are rejected. They appeal to the Office of the Prosecutor General. They listen to them and immediately forget about them… All this is an indication to a certain order. http://www.iformat.ru/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=146&Itemid=1 A well-known priest, journalist hosting a radio program on the “Radio Freedom” Yakov Krotov stated, “I will tell directly. I consider that institution of criminal proceeding (related to Grabovoy

______Circumstances of the Based on Political Motives Lawsuit on the Case of Grigoriy Grabovoy 13/20 G.P.) was initially completely illegal and lawless. There are no legal grounds to discuss anything” (Program on the “Radio Freedom” http://www.svobodanews.ru/radio/christ.html). The stated above opinions indirectly confirm the presence of political motives of the considered case.

2.11. International-legal protection.

In June 2009 representative of the Department on Human Rights of OSCE Liana Adler sent the documents to the International Federation for Human Rights, FDIH for support of political prisoner Grabovoy. In June 2009 the attorneys of G.P. Grabovoy sent a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights about violation of his rights on the current case. In June 2009 a representative of G.P.Grabovy sent to the Constitutional Court of the RF a complaint requesting to check if articles 35 and 159 of the Criminal Code of the RF are in compliance with the Constitution. On 30th April 2008 Moscow municipal court accepted the appeal from the Committee on Human Rights of the Republic Tatarstan about the illegal Resolution of Zamoskvoretskiy District Court related to the complaint of the Committee “On rehabilitation of G.P.Grabovoy and members of political party “DRUGG” as the victims of political repressions” on the basis the law of the RF “About rehabilitation of the victims of political repressions” of 18.10.1991 #1761-1. During 2009 citizens sent 1317 appeals and petitions to Moscow Appeal Municipal Court about violation of their civil rights within the case of G.P.Grabovoy. They are going to follow up the protection of their rights and the rights of G.P.Grabovoy right to European court. On 20th October 2008 the International Criminal Court in Hague accepted petitions from the citizens of four countries “On brining action in International Tribunal and International Criminal Court against ex-president of the Russian Federation V.V.Putin and president of the Russian Federation D.A.Medvedev for preparation for genocide and realization of genocide by criminal prosecution and conviction of Grabovoi G.P”: from Russia # OTP- CR -3838/08, from the USA # OTP- CR -3837/08, from Ukraine # OTP- CR -3828/08, from Uzbekistan # OTP- CR -3903/08.

III. Situation in Russia and political motives of other criminal cases related to other candidates for the presidency of Russia.

The leading countries of Europe including Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Lithuania, Estonia acknowledged that the criminal procedures in Russia are used for the purposes not compatible with the justice in the case Yukos. Thus the judicial bodies of these countries refused to render legal assistance to Russia. This confirms the presence of political repressions and political prisoners. The Federal Tribunal of the Swiss Confederation on 13th August 2007 resolved to reject international assistance to Russia on the case of Yukos, since all the data investigated by the court “distinctly supported the suspicions of the use of a criminal procedure as a tool of the authority for the purposes of subordination of the class of rich “oligarchs” and removal of the potential or real political

______Circumstances of the Based on Political Motives Lawsuit on the Case of Grigoriy Grabovoy 14/20 opponents”. The Resolution of the General Prosecutor's office of the Lithuanian Republic of 24th August 2007, which was approved by Vilnius regional court stated: “it is obvious that the purpose of the charges filed by the Russian Federation against shareholders and leaders of the oil company “Yukos”, undoubtedly, to persecute and punish them for their political views”. According to the data of the independent analysis of “Association of human rights organizations of national republics of RF” of 23rd March 2009, situation in Russia in the sphere of guarantee and protection of political rights of man for the several last years could be characterized by increase of a number of facts of illegal use of the state law-enforcement organizations (Ministry of Internal Affairs, FSB (Federal Security Service of Russia), public prosecutors’ offices) and judicial bodies for organizing political repressions and criminal prosecutions. They undertook transparently illegal attempts to suppress any public oppositional political activities. The most vivid facts were the suppression of speeches of the representatives of political opposition of the authority “Drugaya Rossiya” (Another Russia) and “Solidarity”. According to the information of the internet site www.kasparov.ru representatives of the mentioned above law enforcement organizations used all range of means from slaughters and arrests to throwing in drugs to the members of the opposition. According to the information published by human rights organization “Agora”, 118 communications from 35 regions of the country about the persecution of civil activists in Russia were registered last year. This was an evidence of mass violation of human rights. In 2007 due to political repressions and threats on the part of law-enforcement agencies, journalists Yu. Bagrov and F. Tlisova who conducted reporting from the North Caucasus had to request for political asylum in the USA. In May 2009 a woman journalist from Volgograd E.Maglevannaya asked for political asylum in Finland. In June 2009 a political prisoner Rim Shagailimov was brutally killed in a strict regime colony. Simultaneously with the suppression of public protest speeches they persecuted disagreeable with the regime potential candidates for the presidency of Russia. Their methods included bold blackmail, intimidation, institution of criminal proceedings against them and imprisonment.

THE CASE OF M.KHODORKOVSKIY

One of the loudest criminal cases of the potential candidates for the Presidency in Russia is the criminal case against M.Khodorkovsky and the action against him was brought at the moment of increase of his public and political activities. In the opinion of some experts, his public statement in 2004 concerning his further personal plans, which were connected with the continuation of his work as the Chairman of the Board of the Regional Public organization "Open Russia" on creating the open and true democratic society in Russia, significantly promoted the growth of his political career. On 29th October, 2004 the radio station "Echo of Moscow" took an opinion poll among its listeners and web-site visitors. They were asked the question who they would give their votes to if in the Presidential elections Michael Khodorkovsky was against Vladimir Putin. 75 per cent of the audience of ______Circumstances of the Based on Political Motives Lawsuit on the Case of Grigoriy Grabovoy 15/20 the radio station and 85 per cent of the site users chose the disgraced oligarch. Also, on 29th October “The newspaper” published on its pages the material about the supposedly taken decision to put up Khodorkovsky as the candidate for the Presidency at the private meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation at the elections of 2004. Several electronic editions published information that Michael Khodorkovsky had become the first person who pressed Putin from the first place in the rating of the search inquiries of NINI, calculated by “Yandex”. Many of the journalists dared to express the opinion, that Khodorkovsky would be able to head the forces of the opposition on behalf of the Political Party “Union of Right Forces”, "Yabloko" and even the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPSU) in the future presidential elections. This hypothesis would look absolutely absurd but for the cases of the consolidated actions of the opposition related to the case of Yukos Oil Company, which really took place. "Yabloko" and “Union of Right Forces” published a joint political statement, which informed that M.Khodorkovsky's arrest could subvert the constitutional foundations of Russia. On 31st May, 2005 Meshchansky District Court of the City of Moscow sentenced Michael Khodorkovsky to nine-year imprisonment and payment of many millions penalty. In 2007 the Office of Public Prosecutor brought a new action against the disgraced oligarch. And in the same 2007 the group of M. Khodorkovskiy’s lawyers was blackmailed, they were exposed to intimidations and subjected to the frank political repressions. The search was made at lawyer’s A.V.Drel, lawyers A.V.Drel and V.G. Aleksanyan were summoned to the examination in the State Office of Public Prosecutor, the illegal search and withdrawal of the documents at lawyer’s Shmidt were made, the disciplinary proceeding against lawyer K.Y.Moskalenko was initiated (www.khodorkovsky.ru). As Yu.Shmidt, M.Khodorkovskiy’s lawyer, declared in the Ingodinskiy District Court of the City of Chita: “For more than four years the state has been waging a war on Yukos and its former leaders. The first proceeding convinced us that this was a merciless war without any rules, the war to the knife, the war in which the authorities considered any means admissible. It seemed to be the limit; however it turned to be not due to the absurdity of the charge and the rate of trampling on the accused people and their lawyers’ rights. The second case far surpassed the first one. It could hardly concede to the worst samples of the political processes of the Soviet times. As for the degree of cynicism, the demonstrative contempt for Law, and the coordination of the actions of all “independent” branches of authority, the second case surpassed them.” According to BBC Michael Khodorkovsky declared that the new suit brought against him and Platon Lebedev.

THE CASE OF G.GRABOVOY

On 17th March, 2006 the Constituent Congress of Political Party “DRUGG” took place in Moscow in the conference hall of the hotel “Uzkoe”. The Congress was attended by the delegates from more than 70 regions of Russia. G.Grabovoy, the academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, was elected the chairman of the Party. He declared about his intention to run for the Presidency of Russia in 2008.

______Circumstances of the Based on Political Motives Lawsuit on the Case of Grigoriy Grabovoy 16/20 On 6th April, 2006 (two weeks later) G.Grabovoy was detained and the next day was charged based on part 2 Article 159 of the Criminal Code (CC) of the Russian Federation (“Swindling with the causing of significant damage to the citizens committed by the organized group”). The event was accompanied by the unprecedented use of mass-media. All TV channels of Russia and actually all central printed mass-media informed about G.Grabovoy's promises to resurrect the lost children of Beslan for money. Just one program of Channel 1 “Man and Law” showed 6 telecasts about him in frankly degrading form within 6 months. They ignored the demands of “Mothers of Beslan” Committee to publish a refutation of the slander related to G.Grabovoy. According to the information of the web-site www.drugg.ru hundreds of supporters of G.Grabovoy sent their appeals to the Office of Public Prosecutor demanding to bring legal actions against the false information of mass-media. The appeals were left out of consideration that was one more evidence of mass violation of human rights. Exactly the same facts, which were published by mass-media, became the basis of the charge. These facts had never proved to be true. According to the expert of the Social Organisation “For Human Rights” V.V. Stepanov, the criminal case G.Grabovoy's had been completely falsified; it roughly violated the rights of Man and was made to order. The Inter-regional Public Fund “Protection of the rights of prisoners” recognized G.P.Grabovoy as a political prisoner subjected to political repressions. According to the information of the independent political review of 26th June 2007, “Grigory Grabovoy’s name was worth mentioning among the potential candidates whom the authorities did not want to see as active participants of the forthcoming presidential elections. The active supporters G.Grabovoy could collect 2’000’000 signatures. “The case G.Grabovoy” was breaking down, therefore Tagansky District Court of the City of Moscow on 19th June, 2007 ordered conduction of stationary forensic psychological-psychiatric medical examination of Grigoriy Grabovoy. It looked quite possible that in several years the majority of citizens of Russia would understand that the gloomiest technologies of suppression of person in Russia stemmed from the proceedings against G.Grabovoy. The technologies of suppression of person were as follows:  the campaigns in mass-media, which declared the person guilty before the court verdict,  the revival of forced psychiatry, and, finally  destruction of the bases of Justice”. Subsequently the cassation court reversed the order on conduction of the stationary forensic psychological-psychiatric medical examination as illegal one. On 7th July, 2008 G.P.Grabovoy was sentenced to eleven-year imprisonment by the verdict of Tagansky District Court of the City of Moscow. On 15th October, 2008 the court of cassation of the Moscow Municipal Court reduced the sentence to G.P.Grabovoy to 8 years of imprisonment.

THE CASE OF M.KASIYANOV

Ex-Prime Minister M.Kasiyanov headed for V.Putin’s opposition in autumn of 2003 at the background of the case of Yukos. According to many politicians this became the main reason of his resignation in February 2004.

______Circumstances of the Based on Political Motives Lawsuit on the Case of Grigoriy Grabovoy 17/20 Political activities of the former Prime Minister increased significantly in December 2004 when at the height of the “orange revolution” in the Ukraine M.Kasiyanov visited the USA where he met the leaders of the Republican and Democratic Parties. In 2005 M.Kasiyanov became one of the leaders of the Democratic Party, in 2006 the leader of the coalition of political and civil forces “Another Russia”, and was declared one of the candidates for the presidency from the opposition. On 10th July 2005 the General Prosecutor's office of Russia instituted criminal proceedings against the former Prime Minister of Russia according to article 165 of the Criminal Code of RF (Infliction of Damage on Property By Deceit or Breach of Trust). The facts of registration of the state country real estate “Sosnovka-1” as the private property of the ex-Prime Minister were investigated. What is alarming in the case is not the fact of institution of criminal proceedings but their initiation at time when Kasiyanov was publicly recognized as a potential candidate for the presidency of Russia. On 16th March 2007 Khoroshevskiy court of Moscow obliged the former Prime Minister to return the real estate “Sosnovka-1” to the sate. Some analysts consider that not all “t”s were crossed in this case yet because several criminal proceedings were instituted, investigations are being conducted at a very high pace against people from the environment of M.Kasiyanov. This situation resembles very much the ordered case of M.Khodorkovskiy. Deputy head of a department of the Ministry of Finance Denis Mikhailov was arrested in November 2004 and accused of receiving a bribe of a big amount. Another proceeding was instituted against Ex-Deputy of the Minister of Finance and ex-Head of the Debt Department of the Ministry of Finance Sergey Kolotukhin on the subject of payment the debt of ex-USSR to the Czech Republic. The head of “VPK-Invest” (subdivision of the Ministry’s property) Ramil Gaisin was also accused within the proceedings on the “country real estate”.

THE CASE OF A.DONSKOY

In autumn of 2006 the Mayor of the city of Arkhangelsk A.Donskoy declared about his intention to run for the presidency in Russia in 2008. Soon after that the regional Office of Public Prosecutor brought several suits against him:  according to part 3 of Article 327 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “The use of a document known to be false - …”, and, in ten days  the second one according to part 4 of Article 33 and part 1 of Article 327 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “ Instigation to forgery of a certificate on higher education”, and a new one  according to Article 289 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Illegal Participation in Entrepreneurial Activity”. The Mayor was summoned to interrogations and his flat and office room were searched. A.Donskoy in response declared that he was under political pressure. A.Donskoy classified the actions of the Office of Public Prosecutor of the Arkhangelskiy Region as absurd and contradictory. The last one had already received information about the Mayor’s illegal participation in entrepreneurial activity however refused to bring actions against A.Donskoy due to absense of formal components of the crime in his actions. At the same time the public prosecutor of ______Circumstances of the Based on Political Motives Lawsuit on the Case of Grigoriy Grabovoy 18/20 Arkhangelskiy Region Vladimir Bakun declared that in the case of A. Donskoy there were no any political hidden motives, that it was an ordinary case, and that the actions of the law-enforcement authorities were legal. Avoiding polemics with the public prosecutor we could ascertain the fact that the legal actions against A.Donskoy as well as against the previous candidates were brought soon after promulgation of their political ambitions. The deputy of Arkhangelskaya Regional Assembly Victor Kazarinov made the following comment to the correspondent of IА “REGNUM” in relation to the legal actions brought against the Mayor of Arkhangelsk, “The criminal case of Alexander Donskoy was an obvious political order, although it was not clear who and when made it”. Other candidates for the presidency of Russia: G.Kasparov, V.Bukovskiy, B.Nemtsov and others were not admitted to the elections with the help of usage of the state administrative machine. In addition to the mentioned above circumstances of cases with political motives in Russia we would like to mention that thousands of Chechens in penal colonies are subjected to brute tortures. In particular we would like to draw your attention to the case of Zubair Zubairayev who was being defended by E.Maglevannaya and we would like to ask you to protect him from further tortures. We consider it to be necessary to stop the production of based on political motives and legally absurd cases such as the case of Yuliya Privedennaya or of registered at a psychoneurological dispensary Oleg Tsukanov. We would like to draw your attention to the increase of the number of political prisoners in Russia. We consider it to be necessary to conduct an international investigation related to political prisoners including V.Belashev, M.Khodorkovskiy and other participants of the case of Yukos, the activists of the National- Bolshevik party (NBP) whose colleagues serve the prison term due to political motives (Ruslan Khubayev, Yekaterina Fatiyanova, Dmitriy Manets, Nikolay Baluyev), other political prisoners: Igor Sutyagin, Grigoriy Grabovy, Valentin Danilov, Igor Reshetin, Sergey Vizir, Zara Murtazalieva, Ravil Gumarov, Fanis Shaykhutdinov, Aleksey Pichugin, Sergey Rozhkov, Andrey Grekov, Sergey Arakcheev and others. Information about them is well substantiated and confirmed on the information portals of Russia http://politzeki.voinenet.ru/, the union of prisoners http://zeki.su/. All stated above information testifies to the fact that the criminal prosecution against G.Grabovoy was just one of the number of systematic cases and as a matter of fact is a political repression against the authorities’ opponents who declared about their right to run for the presidency of the country. On the basis of the stated above we would like to ask to consider the presented information at a session of the PACE, to inform the Russian delegation at the PACE about this and to take all possible lawful measures at the level of the PACE and the countries members of the PACE on liberation of G.Grabovoy, M.Khodorkovskiy and others political prisoners in Russia. We would like to ask you to recommend to the United Nations Organization to organize in Russia a mission of  a special reporter of UNO on the issues of extrajudicial collective and illegal execution of punishments, and

______Circumstances of the Based on Political Motives Lawsuit on the Case of Grigoriy Grabovoy 19/20  a special reporter of on the independence of judges, attorneys for the investigation of the declared circumstances of political repressions for liberation of political prisoners and exclusion in the future such methods of political activities.

Chairman of the Committee on Human Rights Of the Republic of Tatarstan, Lawyer, PhD, A Member of the Union of Journalists of Russia S.A.Knyzkin

The Head of the Department on Rendering Legal Assistance to illegally convicted of the All-Russian Public Organization “Committee on Struggle against Corruption” M.I.Trepashkin

The Head of the North-Western Inter-Regional Public Fund of Protection of Rights of Prisoners V.G.Makovey

Statement was supported by: Chairman of the Committee «For the civil rights», Member of the Expert Council under the Ombudsman Human Rights in the Russian Federation A.V. Babushkin Human rights defender and journalist Elena Maglevannaya

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