Maxim Martsinkevich, better known under the pseudonym Tesak (he received such a formidable nickname because of his love for edged weapons), is a very well-known person both in the Internet community and among neo-Nazi organizations. He became famous thanks to his nationalist views, as well as filming videos of how he and like-minded people revealed the identities of pedophiles. In 2014, Martsinkevich was again sent to prison, and now everyone is interested in the question of why Tesak was imprisoned this time.
From an early age, Tesak was an ardent supporter of nationalism, so in 2005 he created his own neo-Nazi organization called Format 18. It received its name due to the combination of letters: the 1st stands for A - Adolf, and the 8th H - Hitler. Tesak himself never hid this, and he always spoke with admiration of the Nazi ruler.
With his like-minded people, he fought against the non-Russian population of the country, who, in his opinion, behaved inappropriately. Since Maxim loved the public, he regularly released videos in which he expressed his opinion on the situation in the country. The story about how he and the guys in Ku Klux Klan costumes butchered a Tajik guy made a lot of noise. As it turned out later, the video was staged, so there was no reason to initiate a criminal case.
As many people know, this is not the first arrest of Martsinkevich. So, in 2007 Tesak was imprisoned. For what? The reason was a statement by Alexei Navalny, a famous political figure and activist. It was he who witnessed the nationalist machinations of Martsinkevich and considered it his duty to punish the skinhead.
So, why was Tesak imprisoned in 2007? Maxim Martsinkevich, inspired by his nationalist idea, decided to make an open statement to the people. To do this, he and his group burst into the “Bilingua” club, where they were held. After a short speech, he and his guys shouted the famous “Sieg Heill” for several minutes.
On July 10 of the same year, Tesak was arrested and charged under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. At that time, this was a new part of the Criminal Code, which prohibited any actions leading to incitement of hatred between people on ethnic grounds. The court found Martsinkevich guilty and sentenced him to three years in prison; a little later he was given another sentence under the same article. This time the reason was an old video in which he deals with a Tajik drug dealer.
This is why Tesak was imprisoned in 2007. In total, Martsinkevich served 3.5 years. By the way, in 2010, the Format 18 organization was officially banned by law, as it was considered extremist.
After his release from prison, Martsinkevich continued his nationalist activities. Since his old organization was closed, he created a new social movement called “Restruct”.
Along with the name, priorities changed, and now Tesak began to actively fight pedophilia. To do this, with the help of dummies, he arranged meetings for amateurs of minors, at which he caught them. Everything that happened was recorded on camera, after which the video was uploaded to the Internet, thereby exposing the identity of the pedophile.
Despite the cruelty of Martsinkevich’s methods, many supported him, and his program “Okupay pedophilia” had a fairly high rating on the Internet.
At the end of November 2013, the Moscow court opened another case against Maxim Martsinkevich. The basis for it was still the same. A few days later, the court decided to take Tesak into custody until all the circumstances were clarified.
Having learned about the case in advance, Tesak left the country - first to Belarus, and then to Cuba. But he was unable to hide for long; on January 17, 2014, he was arrested by the Cuban police. The reason was the lack of a passport, which had been stolen from him the day before by an unknown person. But the authorities did not look into this matter; on January 27, they sent the activist home on a plane, where he was met by Russian
Six months later, the Kuntsevsky court pronounced its verdict - capital punishment. Therefore, in July 2014, Tesak was sent to a maximum security prison for 5 years. However, in November of the same year, the court commuted the sentence, reducing the term to 2 years and 10 months.
But still, why was Tesak imprisoned (2014)? According to the court, the basis for opening the case were videos in which Martsinkevich called for reprisals against the “churkas.” At least, that’s what was established, although Maxim himself is sure that he was ordered because he crossed the path of many influential people.
Martsinkevich first gained fame as an NS skinhead and the leader of the interregional branch of the neo-Nazi youth organization Format 18.
Within the framework of Martsinkevich’s “Restrukt” movement, there were about ten projects, among which the most famous was “Occupy Pedophile”, the stated goal of which was to fight pedophiles and promote the ideas of National Socialism among young people. Martsinkevich’s methods in many cases did not comply with the law, but even led to the initiation of a criminal case against a high-ranking bailiff of the FSSP of the Russian Federation. After the arrest of Martsinkevich and the initiation of numerous criminal cases against members of Restrukt, the movement announced its self-dissolution in 2014.
Martsinkevich was sentenced to criminal punishment three times under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The first time a criminal case was opened against him was in 2007 for disrupting a liberal colloquium at the Bilingua club under fascist slogans. For the second time, Martsinkevich was sentenced to three years in 2009 for a video with racist content, which the court qualified as inciting ethnic hatred. Memories of criminal prosecution and three and a half years of imprisonment formed the basis of Martsinkevich’s book “Restrukt”, written after his release. Upon his release, Martsinkevich did not work anywhere, kept a video blog, lived off the funds he received from those who wanted to take part in the “hunt for pedophiles,” from conducting paid seminars about life in prison, how to steal from stores, etc. . For the third time, Martsinkevich was charged under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for publishing scandalous videos in the fall of 2013. On August 15, 2014, he was sentenced to five years in a maximum security colony (later the sentence was reduced to 2 years and 10 months). In the fall of 2016, Martsinkevich was supposed to be released, but already in the colony he was charged with new charges and he was again taken into custody. On June 27, 2017, Martsinkevich was sentenced to 10 years in prison in a maximum security colony in the case of attacks on people selling spice, which were carried out as part of the Occupy-Narcofilia project. In May 2018, the Moscow City Court overturned the sentence, but in December of the same year, the Babushkinsky Court of Moscow re-sentenced Martsinkevich to the same punishment. Along with him, a number of his associates were sentenced to real terms of imprisonment.
According to Maxim Martsinkevich, he is of Russian-Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian origin. Parents: Sergei Evgenievich and Victoria Leonidovna Martsinkevich. The mother does not share her son’s extremist views, the father supports his son’s beliefs. Tesak spoke about this in his first book, “Destruction,” released in audio recording format: in it, the nationalist talks about his family, youth, events from entering college to his first court verdict. About his personal life in September 2012, Martsinkevich said in an interview with Lenta.ru that he was not married and had no children. Has an interest in journalism.
The Format 18 organization was banned by the court in September 2010 for extremism.
On July 2, 2007, about 10 police officers from Center “T” and the special forces detachment “Lynx” arrested Martsinkevich, setting up an ambush at the sports club where he came to train. On February 18, 2008, Martsinkevich was sentenced to three years under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“inciting hatred or enmity”). Novaya Gazeta noted that the investigation turned a blind eye to the main episodes of the nationalist’s criminal activities, and the court gave him a lenient sentence.
In 2006, 20 people dressed in white Ku Klux Klan robes staged the execution of a Tajik drug dealer; the process was filmed and then posted on the Internet on the YouTube video service. The organizers were Maxim Martsinkevich and Artyom Zuev, who played the role of the Great Dragon of the Moscow region. He owns the voiceover.
At the trial, in a conversation with journalists, Martsinkevich tried to predict the verdict:
I think they will give it 5 years, because drug dealers are, as I understand it, a social group protected by our Constitution. In principle, I, of course, respect the decision of our court, and, apparently, I will have to apologize to the drug dealers. I am very glad that I did not speak out against pedophiles anywhere, because then, I think, I would have received another article, and perhaps more serious. Because pedophiles, I suspect, are an even more protected social group.
On January 16, 2009, Maxim Martsinkevich was re-sentenced to 3 years under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Inciting hatred or hostility based on nationality or religious affiliation.” The court took into account the positive characteristics of Martsinkevich. Taking into account the previous term, the sentence was 3.5 years. Artyom Zuev received a 3-year suspended sentence.
On December 31, 2010, Martsinkevich was released from custody due to serving his prison term. Six months after his release, he tried to run for the Coordination Council of the Russian Opposition, was registered as a participant in the elections, but was subsequently disqualified due to “insufficient opposition” and Nazi inclinations.
After leaving the colony, Martsinkevich organized the Occupy Pedophile movement, whose members were engaged in beating and humiliating people considered pedophiles. Participants in the movement found their victims via the Internet and got to know them on behalf of minors, then offered to meet. Martsinkevich himself and several movement participants came to the meeting. All bullying, including Martsinkevich’s favorite method of reprisal against “suspects” - pouring urine on them, was recorded on video, and then the videos were posted on the Internet. Law enforcement agencies did not react, leaving the actions of traffic participants unpunished.
In September 2013, the attention of television and the print press was attracted by an action organized by Martsinkevich in an apartment on Baumanskaya Street, as a result of which the former deputy head of the Office of the Federal Bailiff Service of the Moscow Region, Andrei Kaminov, was arrested and charged with indecent acts of a sexual nature against a minor.
Martsinkevich himself called “Occupy Pedophile” “a social project aimed at promoting National Socialism, identifying the essence of liberal views and attracting public attention to this problem.” To take part in the “pedophile hunt,” which participants called “safari,” it was necessary to pay a certain amount of money to Martsinkevich.
On February 14, 2013, Martsinkevich was detained in Belarus for fighting and placed in a pre-trial detention center in Minsk (released on February 24 of the same year), after which a criminal case was opened against him for hooliganism with the use of weapons. The media reported that Martsinkevich was detained for a fight with fans of the Belarusian football club “Partizan”, who consider themselves anti-fascists, and the purpose of Martsinkevich’s visit to Minsk was laser correction on his eyes (Tesak had −7 vision). On March 5, 2013, “Tesak” was allowed to leave Belarus, and on April 16 of the same year, the case against Martsinkevich was closed.
In the fall of 2013, Martsinkevich left Russia for Belarus.
On December 13, 2013, Martsinkevich was arrested in absentia by the Kuntsevsky District Court on charges of extremism. The reason for the charge of extremism under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred or enmity and humiliation of human dignity with the use of violence) became three videos on YouTube, where Tesak performs in the spirit of the skinhead subculture. In one of the videos, a neo-Nazi, according to the examination, showed an act of disrespect towards veterans of the Great Patriotic War in a review of the film “Stalingrad" and drew a number of inappropriate parallels between the treacherous nature of the feelings of the Russian girl, who felt sympathy for the German officer in the film, and the feelings of the girl , which in current conditions enters into contact with representatives of the indigenous peoples of the Muslim east. The investigation also checked the videos of the Occupy-Pedophile movement. Martsinkevich himself claimed that the new case is a consequence of an order from the “pedolobby” and revenge. Tesak saw a connection between the initiation of a criminal case and the fact that he exposed the deputy head of the Moscow region department of the FSSP Andrei Kaminov, who came on a date with a teenager, arranged by Martsinkevich, for pedophilia.
After the initiation of a criminal case in the fall of 2013, Martsinkevich, who learned about this in advance, fled through Belarus to Cuba. According to media reports, Tesak planned to stay on Liberty Island and continue to publish videos from there. On January 17, 2014, Tesak was detained by law enforcement authorities in Cuba. On January 27, 2014, he was expelled from Cuba for violating immigration laws and sent in handcuffs on a Havana-Moscow flight; while crossing the border, he was detained by Russian law enforcement agencies. On January 29, Martsinkevich was charged in person in Moscow.
On July 30, 2014, hearings on the merits of the case began in the Kuntsevsky District Court of Moscow. Martsinkevich was accused of “inciting ethnic hatred” (Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to the indictment, the defendant posted three videos of extremist content on his page on the social network “VKontakte” from September 14 to October 14, 2013: reviews of the films “Stalingrad” and “Okolofutbola”, as well as the video “Throw out the chocks”, which contain psychological threats . The court granted the request of the prosecutor's office, sentencing Martsinkevich to five years in prison on August 15, 2014, to be served in a maximum security colony. On November 11 of the same year, the Moscow City Court, having considered the convict’s complaint, reduced the sentence to 2 years and 10 months.
In October 2014, it became known that a new criminal case had been opened against Martsinkevich under the article of hooliganism.
In November 2014, it became known that another criminal case had been opened in Moscow under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement of national hatred) for writing and publishing the book “Restrukt”, the book itself was recognized as extremist.
On March 18, 2015, it became known that Martsinkevich had been charged with robbery and hooliganism.
Tesak was found guilty of assaulting citizens; one of the victims died. The prosecutor requested 11 years and 6 months of imprisonment for Martsinkevich to be served in a maximum security colony. Charges were brought under articles: 282 (“Inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity”), 162 (“Robbery”), 167 (“Intentional destruction or damage to property”) and 213 (“Hooliganism”). The judge of the Babushkinsky Court of Moscow, Alexander Glukhov, partially granted the prosecutor’s request, sentencing Martsinkevich to 10 years in a maximum security colony on June 27, 2017 (with the sentence starting from January 27, 2014), according to other reports from June 27, 2017. One of his accomplices also received 10 years, the rest 3-5 years.
On May 21, 2018, it became known that the Moscow City Court overturned the verdict of the Babushkinsky Court of June 27, 2017 and sent the case to the trial court for a new trial; the measure of restriction of freedom remained unchanged. In December 2018, the Babushkinsky Court of Moscow re-sentenced Martsinkevich to 10 years in a maximum security colony. The convicted person filed an appeal against the verdict. He is serving his sentence in a double cell in the federal prison SIZO-1 “Matrosskaya Tishina”.
The Moscow City Court overturned the verdict of Maxim Martsinkevich, known by his nickname "Tesak". Last year, the Babushkinsky Court in Moscow sentenced the public figure to ten years in prison. A member of the organization Restrukt, banned in the Russian Federation, was accused of extremism and inciting ethnic hatred. Previously, "Tesak" became famous thanks to its activities aimed at combating drug dealers and pedophiles.
Maxim Martsinkevich was sentenced three times to punishment under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. "Tesak" promoted National Socialist ideology, for which he was put in court several times.
The reason for the latest arrest was the inappropriate videos that Martsinkevich filmed for his Youtube channel. The convict was supposed to be released in 2016, but he was charged with new charges.
On July 27, 2017, the Babushkinsky Court of the capital sentenced Maxim Martsinkevich to 10 years in prison. Tesak's accomplices received a slightly shorter sentence - from 3 to 10 years in prison.
The basis for extending the sentence of former Occupy-Narcophilia participants was the fact that they attacked other people. In particular, on persons of Caucasian nationality. Among the victims were sellers of smoking mixtures.
In total, ten members of the banned movement appeared in court, including Tesak. As law enforcement agencies found out, between 2013 and 2014, Occupy Necrophilia carried out about 9 attacks on sellers of prohibited smoking mixtures.
One of the spice traders from Azerbaijan was killed during an attack by extremists. The rest were injured during beatings using third-party special means.
“Occupy-necrophilia” took mobile phones and money from drug dealers. Based on this, the court decided to punish Maxim Martsinkevich and the rest of the organization’s members not only for extremism, but also for hooliganism, robbery and deliberate destruction of other people’s property.
Previously, Martsinkevich was sentenced to four years in prison for a video in which he staged the execution of a Tajik drug dealer. While free, the convict published the book “Restrukt”, in which he described the details of the hunt for him by law enforcement agencies for three and a half years.
Today, Maxim Martsinkevich, nicknamed “Tesak,” is in prison. A criminal case was opened against the public figure, so after the verdict he was sent to a maximum security colony. On May 21, 2018, it became known that the Moscow City Court decided to review Martsinkevich’s sentence, which was handed down in 2017.
The convicted person retained the right to appeal the court verdict. Tesak's lawyers helped him get his sentence overturned. The sentences for Maxim Martsinkevich's accomplices were also commuted: Dmitry Shildyashov received up to 5 years and 10 months in a maximum security colony, Roman Maksimov - up to 4 years and 10 months in general regime, Alexander Shankin - up to 5 years and 10 months in general regime.
"Tesak" considers himself innocent. According to a member of an ultra-radical organization, the government is pursuing a dual policy and, instead of drug traffickers, punishes those who fight them.
Maxim Martsinkevich was born in Moscow in 1984. He graduated from the College of Architecture and Construction Arts, then studied for two years at the Moscow State Construction University and began to appear more and more often in neo-Nazi circles. Tesak’s first comrades-in-arms were Nazi skinheads from the “Russian Target” group, led by Semyon Tokmakov, nicknamed Bus, then he joined the People’s National Party of Alexander Ivanov-Sukharevsky.
In 2005, a website was launched, thanks to which the 120-kilogram neo-Nazi received his first fame - “Format-18”. It published videos with re-enactments of the “executions” of foreigners, Tesak’s own arguments about the superiority of the white race, and filming of “force actions,” that is, street attacks, the victims of which were selected based on external characteristics. In essence, Format-18 was a neo-Nazi informal organization with dozens of participants, but Martsinkevich himself called it a “creative association.” At the same time, he, along with like-minded people, became closely associated with the National Socialist Society of Dmitry Rumyantsev, which at that time had already ruined relations with all the noticeable forces of the right flank - the Russian National Union, the Slavic Union and the Movement against Illegal Immigration (all four mentioned in the last sentence of the organization banned as extremist).
On February 28, 2007, a debate was held at the Moscow Bilingua club, moderated by Yabloko representative Alexei Navalny. Publicists Yulia Latynina and Maxim Kononenko were discussing the topic “Where are the Democrats?” when about a dozen skinheads entered the hall. The largest of them demanded to be given the floor, but Navalny refused to do so. Then Tesak’s comrades began to raise their hands in a Nazi salute and shout “Sieg Heil!” When the already turned off microphone ended up in the hands of Martsinkevich, he asked Latynina: “Why engage in politics if you are not ready to sacrifice your life? And in general, do you agree that when we kill all the liberals, life will become much better?” In response, the publicist doubted that the young man would be able to kill all the liberals.
“Nobody wanted to answer my question. Then I just started “Sieg!”, about ten people from the audience responded with a harmonious “Heil!” and so on ten times,” the neo-Nazi himself later described what happened on LiveJournal. Ten minutes later, Martsinkevich and his comrades left, missing a police squad on the way out.
Later, members of the Democratic Alternative movement - Alexei Navalny, Maria Gaidar and Oleg Kozyrev - filed a statement with the prosecutor's office. On the night of the third of July, security forces raided the apartment on Rublevskoye Highway where Tesak lived. As the magazine noted The New Times, during his arrest, Martsinkevich behaved defiantly, told the police about his love for Hitler and proposed making Alexander Lukashenko president of Russia. Later, he was charged under Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement of hatred with threat of violence) and detained for two months.
“I’ve been in prison for two months now, and I’ve begun to slowly get used to prison, which in general doesn’t make me happy, but it makes life easier. In the cell, in addition to watching TV and reading the Criminal Code, I play chess. At first, when my head was only occupied with what the investigators were going to do to me, it was impossible to play. But now, when it became clear that my situation could no longer be worsened, it became easier to play. Now we are waiting in the cell to see if Kasparov will come to us to show us a master class. This is especially likely before the elections,” Martsinkevich wrote about his first experience in a pre-trial detention center. In February 2008, he was sentenced to three years in a penal colony.
While Tesak was serving his sentence, a second sentence was passed against him. The occasion was a Format-18 video with a re-enactment of the hanging of a “Tajik drug dealer,” filmed in 2006. In the video, people in white caps pretended to hang a foreigner, cut off his leg and burn it at the stake, and one of Tesak’s associates, who calls himself “the great dragon of the Moscow region,” makes a speech in which he talks about “the influx of colored scum” and "enemies of the white race." This recording was shown in “Program Maximum” on NTV and in “A Week with Marianna Maksimovskaya” on REN-TV.
In the dock along with Martsinkevich was the “great dragon” himself, the organizer of combat training for neo-Nazis, Artem Zuev. Although the case was initiated soon after the video was broadcast on federal channels, it was only given a start after Tesak’s first verdict was upheld in the Moscow City Court. The second verdict was announced in January 2009. Another six months in a colony were added to Martsinkevich’s sentence (under the same Article 282), and Zuev was sentenced to three years’ probation. On December 20, 2010, Format-18 was recognized by the Moscow City Court as an extremist association.
After leaving the colony, thinner and more skilled in the art of giving interviews, Tesak continued his creative activity, switching his attention from foreigners to pedophiles. His YouTube-the show “Occupy Pedophilia,” which Tesak himself called a “social project,” quickly gained popularity among far-right youth. In between the capture of alleged pedophiles and “preventive conversations”, during which the neo-Nazi doused his victims with urine, Martsinkevich conducted paid seminars, telling the audience how to behave correctly in prison and steal food from stores. Tesak did not remain aloof from the “swamp” wave of protest: he tried to speak at a rally on Sakharov Avenue and get elected to the Opposition Coordination Council, however, unsuccessfully. While free, Martsinkevich managed to publish the book “Restrukt!”, in which he shared his impressions of the colony and his ideas in the field of migration policy. After some time, this book will become the reason for another term for a neo-Nazi.
Tesak’s activities within the framework of Occupy-Pedophilia were actively covered by REN-TV and NTV, which regularly published stories about “safari” - as Martsinkevich called the hunt for an alleged pedophile with the participation of a baited teenager - in news releases. In November 2013, employees of Center “E” and Investigative Committee investigators conducted a search in the apartment of Martsinkevich’s father as part of another case under Article 282, in which a neo-Nazi was a witness. Without waiting for a change in his procedural status, Tesak wrote on his VKontakte page that he was forced to “urgently go on vacation.” He later said that, having learned about the search in his father’s apartment, he went to Ukraine, and from there to Cuba.
“I was sure that sooner or later my activities would lead to someone attacking me, opening a case or organizing a provocation - there are so many people willing that it’s hard to find... The fact that a case was opened against me under Article 282 - quite predictable. Shouldn't he be giving me drugs? Although I thought they would try to kill me, to be honest,” Martsinkevich wrote. He connected the new criminal case with the popularity of Occupy Pedophilia and the growing activity of the far-right Restrukt movement, created on its basis: according to Tesak, shortly before the search, he completed a three-week tour of Russia, during which he opened “branches” of the association.
On December 14, the Kuntsevsky District Court of Moscow arrested Martsinkevich in absentia, after which he was put on the international wanted list. At the same time, it turned out that the new charges against him were not related to Occupy Pedophilia - the attention of investigators was drawn to videos published on YouTube- neo-Nazi channel - “Throw out the chock! Election campaign!”, “Tesak about the film “Stalingrad” and the situation in Biryulyovo” and “Tesak about the film “Okolofootball””.
In the first video, Tesak argued that Moscow’s problems will be solved when all migrants are evicted from it. Martsinkevich filmed the last two on his mobile phone camera when he went to the cinema to see “Stalingrad” and “Okolofootball”. Standing against the background of posters in the cinema hall, he commented on the actions of the heroes; These amateur video reviews were given their originality by the author’s characteristic far-right rhetoric. Experts from the Investigative Committee saw in the videos the presence of “neo-Nazi ideology in value judgments” and “negative attitude towards Russia’s victory in the Second World War.”
“I don’t run out of money, but I don’t have enough for a ticket to Russia. I’ll live here in the mountains, eat beans and shrimp,” Martsinkevich said in an interview LifeNews. But the neo-Nazi did not remain in Cuba for long - on January 17 he was detained for staying in the country without a visa for more than 30 days, and 10 days later he was extradited to Russia. Finding himself in custody in Moscow pre-trial detention center No. 3, Tesak went on a hunger strike due to the investigator’s refusal to include in the case materials the results of an examination of three videos, carried out at the request of his defense. According to the neo-Nazi's lawyer, he stopped it only after 60 days, having lost 43 kilograms. At the same time, Tesak's third case was brought to court.
The verdict was announced in mid-August 2014. Speaking with the last word, Martsinkevich emphasized that he was engaged “not in politics, but in social work,” and refused to admit guilt. The Kuntsevsky District Court made an extremely harsh decision against the background of established practice under Article 282: it sentenced him to five years in a maximum security colony. This time, the report on the verdict was shown not only by REN-TV and NTV, but also by Channel One with Rossiya-1. “To hear the verdict in the hall of the Kuntsevsky District Court, Maxim Martsinkevich appeared with an arrogant smile. This is the third trial of a man nicknamed Tesak. By the age of 30, Martsinkevich, who calls himself not only a Nazi, but also a racist, had acquired a whole track record of dubious achievements,” one of the stories said.
In November of the same year, the Moscow City Court, having considered the defense's appeal, reduced the term of imprisonment by almost half - to two years and nine months. Speaking at this meeting about his fate, the neo-Nazi compared himself to Socrates, Galileo and Solzhenitsyn.
In June 2014, participants in “Restrukt” carried out a massacre of a native of Azerbaijan, Zair Alyshev, who died from his injuries. A criminal case was opened against the participants in the attack under Part 4 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code (intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm, negligently resulting in the death of the victim). From that moment on, the Investigative Committee became closely involved in cases regarding activists of the neo-Nazi movement, which were later combined into one proceeding and transferred to the Main Investigative Directorate for Moscow. At the end of June, Tesak’s supporters tried to hold an “international congress” of the movement in the concert hall of the Izmailovo hotel complex, but riot police broke into the event. In October of the same year, the Chertanovsky District Court satisfied the request of the prosecutor’s office to recognize the book “Restrukt!” extremist material.
Just two months after the verdict in the third case, Tesak became a defendant in the fourth; it was initiated not under the usual 282nd article, but under 213th (hooliganism). In March 2015, Tesak was taken from the colony for investigative actions to Moscow and imprisoned in a pre-trial detention center. At the end of January 2016, the case was transferred to the Babushkinsky District Court, but two months later it returned it to the prosecutor’s office to eliminate violations. As a result, Tesak was charged with two counts of Article 282 of the Criminal Code - for the book “Restrukt!” and the audiobook “Destruction”, as well as part 2 of Article 162 (robbery committed by a group of persons), part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism committed by a group of persons) and part 2 of Article 35, part of Article 167 of the Criminal Code (organizing damage to property by a group of persons) for "safari" on an alleged drug dealer, captured in video"Occupy-Narcophilia No. 8." In it, Martsinkevich and his associates catch a native of Tajikistan, Mukhtarov, who, according to their information, was selling spice, and then tear his shirt, beat him and force him to eat the plant substance found on him.
According to the decision to charge him as a defendant, on August 17, 2013, Martsinkevich, Knyazev, Shankin, who had not yet reached the age of criminal responsibility, and at least three more accomplices, caught Mukhtarov and began to use violence: Tesak hit the man with a stun gun, Shankin “with the aim of demonstrated the metal baton he had with him for intimidation and suppression.” After this, the document says, the Restrukt leader took 3,500 rubles and a phone from the victim’s trouser pocket. Nokia 5220 worth 3,610 rubles, then tore with his hands the company shirt the victim was wearing S.Oliver worth 4,812 rubles 50 kopecks, and Knyazev, in turn, stained Mukhtarov’s trousers Donatto costing 2012 rubles 50 kopecks with spray paint. By carrying out these actions, the resolution says, the neo-Nazis acted “out of hooligan motives,” which forms a separate element of the relevant article.
Martsinkevich himself denies the accusations. “[That is] I, having entered into a conspiracy for the purpose of profit under the guise of fighting spice, together with a group of activists from the Restrukt OD, attacked the victim Mukhtarov Kh. and took away his phone, which he valued at 1000 rubles. and 3,500 in cash. We subsequently divided the money. Oops! […] Next comes hooliganism, Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Those. actions committed out of contempt for society and morality, in order to disrupt public order. […] And then comes the destruction of the shirt, v. 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. A trifle, only up to 5 years. I tore off several of Mukhtarov’s buttons, but he said that because of this, his shirt worth $200 (!!!) became unusable, and he threw it away :))) I never had a shirt worth $200, but he did - was. And he threw it away. And the investigation believes that the damage to the clothes was also discussed and planned. This is the final accusation: writer-gopnik-hooligan :) Postmodern!” - Martsinkevich explained the essence of the accusations on his VKontakte page.
In addition to Martsinkevich, Knyazev and Shanin, there are seven more people in the dock, accused of unrelated episodes. In early June, the state prosecution requested sentences for them: for one of the accused - three years and four months in prison, for another - five years, for two more, including 19-year-old Elizaveta Simonova - six years each; The prosecutor demanded that two more be sent to a colony for nine years, one for ten, and Martsinkevich himself for 11 and a half. “11.6 years of strict regime on charges of writing a book and selling a cheap mobile phone... This is about four times more than the average Russian gopar gets for several episodes of similar robberies,” -
Maxim Sergeevich Martsinkevich, nicknamed Tesak- former NS skinhead, ex-leader of the interregional public association “Format 18”. He became famous for his racist videos and “comedy” productions, which he filmed and posted on the Internet in 2005-2007.
Martsinkevich Tesak Maxim claims to be of Russian-Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian origin. Parents: Sergey Evgenievich Martsinkevich and Victoria Leonidovna Martsinkevich. The mother did not share her son's extremist views. Father's son's nationalism Martsinkevich- supported the younger one. Maxim Martsinkevich was drafted into the army, but a few days later he severely beat an Azerbaijani colleague, underwent a mental health examination and was discharged. Nickname Cleaver received or chose it himself because of his love for edged weapons.
Maxim Martsinkevich Graduated from the College of Architecture and Building Arts. He studied at MISS, but was expelled. Maxim Martsinkevich gave interviews to corrupt “journalists” solely for money. In one of them he claimed to work as an engineer. I sold videos on my website format18.org, on which he also tried to sell music. The money he earned was enough to rent an apartment.
Maxim Martsinkevich was a member of the association of skinheads “Russian Target” of Semyon “Bus” Tokmakov. Until 2003 he was a member of the People's National Party. Created his own association of skinheads "Format 18". He was also related to such an organization as Mr. Rumyantsev’s NSO.
Originated in 2005. The number 18 encodes the name Adolf Hitler. A is the first letter of the Latin alphabet. N - eighth. Skinheads beat Asian migrant workers and homeless people, recorded them on tape, and distributed the recordings via the Internet. Also Maxim Martsinkevich comrades filmed comedy staged videos that promoted hatred of blacks and anti-fascists. The Russian Reporter magazine writes about one video:
Maxim Martsinkevich shocked the audience with video footage of the execution of a “Tajik drug dealer” in a forest near Moscow. The execution was carried out by certain executioners in Ku Klux Klan costumes. In the video, a Tajik is first hanged and then dismembered. However, it soon became clear that this was just a staging. The meat of the “dismembered” prisoner turned out to be ordinary beef. Soon Maxim Martsinkevich admitted that all his videos were staged; he called himself a “producer,” “director,” and “creative person.”
The skinhead association had its own website, format18.org, which was closed in 2007 at the request of the authors of the website Antifa.ru. Format 18 gained followers online who also posted their videos. The most famous was the execution of a Tajik and a Dagestani, which appeared on the Internet in August 2007, when Maxim Martsinkevich was already arrested. According to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office, the events shown in the video actually took place. As a public organization, Format 18 was banned in September 2010 for extremism.
Maxim Martsinkevich was detained and sentenced to 3 years in 2007 for extremist statements in the Moscow club “Bilingua”. Martsinkevich and his associates visited the club where political debates were taking place between journalists and Maxim Kononenko. He asked the journalists if they agreed that for Russia to prosper, it is necessary to kill all the democrats, and shouted “Zig!” His comrades unanimously answered “Heil!” The Nazis chanted like this for several minutes.
Subsequently in his live journal Maxim Martsinkevich praised several girls who had the courage to chant back “Fascism will not pass!” Latynina called the skins “real men” because ten of them could kill a Tajik girl. Kononenko suggested calling the police, since shouting “Sieg Heil” on the street is prohibited. But the police were not called. The organizer of the debate, Alexei Navalny, considered it his duty to write a statement to the prosecutor's office.
On July 2, about 10 police officers from the T Center and the Lynx special forces detachment arrested Maxim Martsinkevich, setting up an ambush at the sports club where he came to train. Maxim Martsinkevich convicted under Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Inciting hatred or enmity.”
In 2006, 20 people dressed in white Ku Klux Klan robes staged the execution of a Tajik drug dealer. They filmed it and posted it on the Internet. The organizers were Maxim Martsinkevich and Artyom Zuev, who played the role of the Great Dragon of the Moscow region. He also owns the voice-over.
At the trial in conversation with journalists Maxim Martsinkevich tried to predict the verdict:
I think they'll give it 5 years, because drug dealers are, as I understand it, a social group protected by our Constitution. In principle, I, of course, respect the decision of our court, and, apparently, I will have to apologize to the drug dealers. I am very glad that I did not speak out against pedophiles anywhere, because then, I think, I would have received another article, and perhaps more serious. Because pedophiles, I suspect, are an even more protected social group.
January 16, 2009 Maxim Martsinkevich re-sentenced to 3 years under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Inciting hatred or enmity based on nationality or religious affiliation.” The court took into account the positive characteristics Maxim Martsinkevich. Taking into account the previous term, the sentence was 3 and a half years.
It is unclear from the press whether this period will be counted from the moment of detention or from the moment of sentencing by the second court. Artyom Zuev received a 3-year suspended sentence. December 31, 2010 Maxim Martsinkevich was released from custody due to serving his sentence.
Nowadays he is the leader of the unregistered public organization "Restrukt" and the movement fighting pedophiles “Occupy Pedophilia” (the name is a parody of recent liberal gatherings)
