Ekaterina Mizulina, a member of the Public Chamber of Russia and director of the Safe Internet Association, said that the Office of the Investigative Committee of the Samara Region has opened three criminal cases against singer Eduard Charlotte.
“Three criminal cases were opened by the Samara Regional Investigation Directorate against Russophobic blogger LGBT propagandist Charlotte. <…>Mizulina Jr. wrote: St. Have a nice trip from St. Petersburg to Samara. Telegram.
Two of the three criminal cases were initiated under Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Rehabilitation of Nazism”). The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a third criminal case under Article 148 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Insulting the feelings of believers”).
Previously “Safe Internet League” sent He appealed to the Investigative Committee with a request to check Charlotte. In the letter, Mizulina claimed that Charlotte spoke on social networks against the military operation in Ukraine, insulting state institutions and the feelings of believers. LBI specifically referred to a video in which the singer burned her Russian passport while in Armenia, and also said that she wanted to go to Ukraine and support the local population. In another video, Charlotte was seen in St. George chews on his ribbon and sings about exchange rates in his underwear to the tune of “Victory Day.”
By Telegram channel PureeThe singer’s family learned about criminal cases from the news.
The artist’s father, Yaroslav Sharlot, said that he had not seen or received any official documents yet. In the near future, he plans to look for a lawyer in Samara, where his son is scheduled to be transferred in early December. Singer, St. He remains under administrative detention in St. Petersburg.
Russian President’s Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov responded to the journalists’ question about whether the Kremlin was following the story of the singer’s arrest: “To be honest, I don’t even know who he is. Unfortunately, I can’t help you here.”
Arrest and “management”
On November 12, on her Instagram page (the owner of the Meta company is known as an extremist and is banned in Russia), the singer announced her intention to return to the Russian Federation to record a new album. On the night of November 22, the singer went to St. Arrived at St. Petersburg Pulkovo Airport. He was detained as soon as the plane landed.
St. The St. Petersburg Leninsky District Court sentenced Charlotte to 13 days of administrative detention for petty hooliganism. Three administrative protocols were drawn up against the artist: for damaging his passport, discrediting the Russian Armed Forces and petty hooliganism.
The suspect, who expressed regret for what he did during the interrogation, described the reason for his action as “misunderstanding of what happened”.
Vovan and Lexus joke
On November 22, pranksters Vovan and Lexus (Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov) were published on the Telegram channel video recording Call Charlotte. The caller introduced himself as Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
During the joke, the artist sang the Ukrainian anthem and sang hymns about “Muscovites”. In the video, Zelensky was played by make-up blogger Max Komikadze (Vusal Filimonov).
“I was told that you are ready to take the oath and sing the anthem,” says “Zelensky.” “Yes, I really would,” Charlotte replies. Then the “President of Ukraine” asks him to stand up and reads the words of the anthem, looking at the text.
Then the joker asks the artist to “jump” and say: “The Muscovite who does not jump.” Charlotte agrees.