Employees of the Department for crimes connected with the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare of the RF Investigative Committee’s Head Office together with agents of the Federal Security Service and the Interior Ministry have carried out investigative and search operations and got data that suggest that some Russian citizens were involved in the activity of the extremist organization Right Sector prohibited in Russia by the decision of the RF Supreme Court.
Based on that data, probes have been launched against 5 Russian citizens: Igor Chudinov, Gennady Khamrayev, Georgy Stotsky, Roman Strigunkov and Alexander Valov. They are suspected of heading and membership in an extremist organization under Parts 1 and 2 of Article 282.2 of the RF Penal Code.
According to investigators, all five Russians are radicals and support fascism and nationalism. In different times they left Russia for Ukraine to join the Right Sector. Depending on their position in the organization they carried out different tasks. Chudinov as a second-in-command of a military squad of The Right Sector and Khamrayev as a militant of the said scquad took active part in punitive operations carried out against civilians in self-declared people’s republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. Stotsky, Strigunkov and Valov became Right Sector activists and regularly participated in rallies, marches and other mass events of that organization. They promoted the ideas, goals and missions of the Right Sector on the Internet and idealized the activity of its leaders and activists.
The work to identify and prosecute members of the Right Sector whatever their citizenship will be continued.
At the same time, the Investigative Committee once more warns Russian citizens who think that they can plunge into adventure, take part in local military conflicts on the side of prohibited extremist organizations and nobody will find out. This is not true. The information on their sorties will become known to Russian law enforcement authorities sooner or later and criminal prosecution for such actions is only a matter of time.
Acting Head of Media Relations S.L. Petrenko
PDF version 
DOC version
