I was working on my blog today.
As always, when I write in English I look for some info from Russia, often from Tomsk.
One of the news upset me very much.
Two residents of the Tomsk region were arrested on suspicion of transferring money to the Ukrainian military.
A criminal case has been opened under the article on treason, the press service of the regional FSB reported on Wednesday.
The officials don’t give the names and any details, or how they were caught.
On the basis of the investigation materials, criminal cases were initiated under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “High treason”. The sanction under it provides for a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
To clarify, I was upset because they were caught. However, they can be simply innocent, and the case was falsified.
Recently a friend of mine mentioned that her friend “Russian wife” travels back and forth from the US to Russia to see her sick mother. We were talking that in general it’s possible. I can’t send a letter, postcard, or package to my Russian relatives but I can still travel there.
The question is do I want it or how safe is it?
On February 20, FSB officers detained a 33-year-old US and Russian citizen in Yekaterinburg on suspicion of treason. Again, no name was provided. But Mediazona reporters think that this was Ksenia Karelina. Mediazona also said that Ksenia got American citizenship in 2021 and married to an American in 2023.
According to the human rights project “First Department”, Karelina was accused of transferring $51.8 from her account in an American bank to the account of the Razom for Ukraine Ukrainian fund on February 24, 2022.
Well, I was transferring money to Razom for Ukraine too, not so much though.
But how did FSB learn that info, did Ksenia really transfer that amount of money, and what is the human rights project “First Department” to begin with?
The First Department is a Russian human rights project specializing in closed-door trials and the protection of defendants in criminal cases of treason, espionage and extremism, as well as ensuring freedom of access to information from state archives. The “First Department” was created on December 20, 2021. I found that on Wikipedia.
I guess the “First department” tries to help people. I am not sure if it’s really possible in Russia now.
-On April 10, Rostov region, the FSB detained a student for collecting information about the deployment of the Russian armed forces.
-On March 1, Moscow, 2 people were arrested on suspicion of treason, details were not reported, the trial is being held behind closed doors.
-On February 6, a resident of the Kamchatka Territory was arrested for cooperating with the Ukrainian security service.
And the last case is fascinating, I really don’t know what to believe.
Russian online resource Lenta.ru posted:
A Ukrainian born Russian citizen was fighting on the Ukrainian side, and was captured by Russians,- I understand that part.
On April 4, 2024, the court sentenced him to 12 years in prison for disclosing (collecting) classified information for German intelligence.
He was an employee of a defense plant and was going to transfer secret information about the facility of the Russian Defense Ministry to a foreign intelligence service. Omich (a person who lives in Omsk Town) planned to move with his family to Germany. He was detained in June 2023.
I just cannot figure out the timeline. In the article they said:
In 2016 he became a Russian citizen.
In 2018 moved to Ukraine.
During the military operation he was captured.
When did he start working on the Omsk defense Plant? And became a German spy?
Does it sound real? Does it make sense to you?
According to Currenttime.tv,
In 2023, at least 148 people became involved in criminal cases in Russia: 98 – under the article on treason, 31 cases on espionage, 19 cases on secret cooperation with foreigners, at least 88 such cases were submitted to the courts, and 50 of them have already been convicted, Siberia.Reality* calculated. This is a historical record for the level of repression by the FSB. Human rights activists believe that the real number of cases may be much higher, and the increase in the rate of persecution will continue in 2024.
Going back to the beginning of my post, do I want to go to Russia? I want my relatives to visit me. That raises the next question, when is it going to be possible?
The main resource of my post was https://www.currenttime.tv/
Google says “Current Time TV is an independent international news and analytics network designed to connect Russian speakers around the world”.
*Siberia.Reality is another website that promises truthful information.
https://www.currenttime.tv/a/rekord-po-delam-o-gosizmene-i-shpionazhe/32762549.html
https://www.riatomsk.ru/article/20240417/dvoe-tomichej-zaderzhani-po-podozreniyu-v-donatah-vsu/
https://iz.ru/1658781/2024-03-01/v-moskve-arestovali-dvukh-podozrevaemykh-v-gosizmene
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