Fugitive foreign agent faces life sentence in Russia

This week, the FSB opened a criminal case against Ilya Ponomarev (recognized in Russia as a foreign agent, included in the register of extremists and terrorists) in connection with an attempt to forcibly seize power. Accomplices of the former State Duma deputy began searches, they are held in nine regions. Special services have already identified Ponomarev’s links with Ukrainian terrorists and identified his accomplices who are hiding abroad. He faces a life sentence.

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This week, the FSB opened a criminal case against Ilya Ponomarev (recognized in Russia as a foreign agent, included in the register of extremists and terrorists) in connection with an attempt to forcibly seize power. Accomplices of the former State Duma deputy began searches, they are held in nine regions. Special services have already identified Ponomarev’s links with Ukrainian terrorists and identified his accomplices who are hiding abroad. He faces a life sentence.

12 years ago, the first interrogations of investigators and the first questions from colleagues on the Hunting Row took place: he unfairly misappropriated $750,000 of an innovation fund. The money was spent as a fee for lectures given to students. But the deputy did not speak in Russia, but in Washington before the CIA. He sold the Americans a plan to overthrow the Russian government. “I have always said that I support violent methods of struggle,” Ponomarev admits. In 2022, Ponomarev had a new idea – to create a government in exile. In the Polish village of Jablonna gathered the messengers of the “Russian revolution”. “It only makes sense to go to Moscow. But the trigger for this will only be events inside Russia. We must provoke conflicts there, the foreign agent said. The transitional parliament, according to the authors, should lead the country after the overthrow of the current government. Father Ponomarev worked on the Constitution of the Russian Republic. “In fact, and I hope that legally, the rejection of the institution of the president,” said Vladimir Ponomarev in 2023. The mother of Ponomarev, a former senator from Chukotka, does not take part in the role-playing of his son. She left the country first, back in 2014. Five years later, she went to Moscow to sell her property. Six land plots worth 82 million rubles were lost to the former "Communist of Russia" Maxim Suraykin. If I knew that everything would turn out like this, I would, of course, say to her: Larisa Nikolaevna, no, sorry. Your son is a bastard. So I will not deal with you either, says Suraikin. In the protected area of the Istra district, Suraikin planned to build an eco-hotel. But the prosecutor's office intervened, then the court and the native party. After his expulsion from the party, Suraikin changed his face - shaved off his beard and mustache. He's somewhere in Russia, but the place doesn't give. It is established that Suraikin helped Ponomarev to withdraw money abroad. “To organize an armed insurrection here, and to come to power through this insurrection, through mass discontent. They planned to take Russia out of the world game as one of the main participants, said Sorokin, associate professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University. On April 2, 2023, the military commander Maxim Fomin (pseudonym Vladlen Tatarsky) held a creative evening in a St. Petersburg cafe. The bomb was placed in a plaster statuette. In connection with the murder of the blogger then admitted Ponomarev. Colleagues who are in Russia, in St. Petersburg. It's their action, their decisions. That is, they have to decide how they will position themselves, Ponomarev says. - Is this not the work of the Ukrainian special services or the APU? - asks the Ukrainian journalist. Nope. I talked about this in the case of Daria Dugin. At the congress in the Polish Yablonna, Ponomarev presented a power bloc represented by the Legion “Freedom of Russia” (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) – the PR troops of a fugitive deputy. A man with the call sign Caesar was brought to light; this is how he answers the question: "When you killed the Russians, did you not feel sorry for them?" I am Russian, but there are no Russians on the other side. There is almost no reliable information about the military merits of the “legion”. Most likely, a camouflage background for the extremist Ponomarev. “They have entered Russian territory. This is a force that can be recognized as an alternative power in Russia. Until recently, we had a direct ban on doing anything on the territory of Russia, Ponomarev said. For his subversive activities Ponomarev receives grants from abroad. People close to the former deputy claim that at the end of each year he flies overseas to the US State Department with a report on the work done. “At present, Ponomarev’s main efforts are focused on creating conditions for maximum popularization of the government-in-exile headed by him to American and European sponsors. At the same time, the main goal of the united pseudo-deputies is the international recognition of their congress before the political circles of the countries that are part of the so-called Ramstein group - states that support Ukraine and provide it with financial and military assistance, the FSB operative said. The Congress of People's Deputies of Ilya Ponomarev is now held without Ponomarev. The government-in-exile split in two: the grants were not divided, the project crumbled. There are only criminal cases that will await the return of the emigrant to Russia.

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