Founder of project about victims of political repression disappears in Russia after being detained
Pravda Ukraine
Andrey Shalaev, the founder of the Russian Bessmertnyi Barak (Immortal Barracks) project on victims of political repression, disappeared after he was detained in Tver on 19 October.
Source: Meduza, the Russian Latvia-based media outlet, citing the Bessmertnyiy Barak project and OVD-Info, an independent Russian human rights media project
Details: Shalaev told OVD-Info that he was detained at a train station in Tver while waiting for a train in a café on 19 October. He said they wanted to draw up a report on him under the article on appearing in public places in a state of intoxication (Articles 20, 21 of Russia’s Code of Administrative Offences).
He was last contacted on the evening of the same day.
Shalaev showed French journalists firing ranges in Tver where mass executions occurred on the afternoon of 19 October.
Quote from the Bessmertnyi Barak project: “We do not know about Andrey’s whereabouts at the moment. His phone number is unavailable. All police departments, temporary detention centres, a special reception centre, FSB, an investigative committee and others answer to Andrey’s lawyer and father that such a man was not brought there. It was impossible to contact the medical institutions; no phone number responds”.
Note: Bessmertnyi Barak is a public project created in 2015 that collects documents, photographs and memories of victims of political repressions in the USSR.
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