A SHAKESPEAREAN LOVER IMPRISONED FOR THE HOUSE BOMBINGS IN MOSCOW

The Moscow City Court has sentenced a terrorist who threatened to blow up residential buildings in Moscow in September 1999. His letters containing threats to the authorities were received a few days before the bombings of the buildings on Guryanova Street and Kashirskoye Highway. It was never possible to prove that this was not a coincidence.

As "MK" was told in court, the 56-year-old native of Ivano-Frankivsk, Anatoly Viktorovich Mylnikov, head of the economic security service of the "Zolotye Stranitsy" publishing house, was accused of terrorism. Mylnikov spent more than 20 years in prison for murder, rape, and sodomy, and was only released in the summer of 1999. In prison, he met the husband of a woman who soon became his mistress. For her sake, he threatened to blow up the houses of Muscovites... After leaving prison, Mylnikov immediately came to the wife of his cellmate and stayed to live with her. But the love affair did not prevent the woman from remaining loyal to her husband. At the trial on charges of fraud against her unfaithful lady, appearing as a witness, she took all the blame upon herself. The loyal friend was arrested...

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SECULAR NEWS, REMARKS ON THE OCCASION

Another spy trial

"Yesterday, the trial of the terrorist-lover Anatoly Viktorovich Mylnikov, which 'Novye Izvestiya' wrote about at the beginning of this week, ended in the Moscow City Court...

Evgeny Chernousov is already preparing a cassation appeal to the Supreme Court. He believes that it is too early to put an end to this extraordinary case, from which, as in 'spy' trials, the FSB is stubbornly trying to create a precedent."
"Novye Izvestiya", No. 144, 17.08.02

Why did Anatoly Viktorovich Mylnikov end up in the "Lefortovo" pre-trial detention center?

Chernousov, as a former law enforcement officer, has his own answer to this: "Anatoly could have been imprisoned for operational reasons. Operatives usually have two ways: to conduct 'development' of a suspect and check his connections at his place of residence, establishing surveillance over him. Or put him in prison and there, in conditions of isolation, pressure him and achieve some kind of testimony."
"Novye Izvestiya", 25.07.02

RBC: 04.12.2002 Consideration of the cassation appeal against the verdict in Russia's first trial on charges of threat of terrorism.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation will consider the cassation appeal against the first verdict in the practice of Russian legal proceedings in a case of a threat to commit terrorism, delivered on August 16, 2002, in the Moscow City Court. The defendant is Anatoly Viktorovich Mylnikov. Recall that on August 21, 1999, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation and on September 7 of the same year, the editorial office of "Novaya Gazeta" received written appeals on behalf of the organization "Volunteers of Russia" with a report on the commission of explosions of communications and buildings in case of failure to comply with the demand for the release of citizen N. Zander, arrested by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The court session begins at 10:00.

RENTV December 4, 2002: The Supreme Court of Russia left unchanged the first sentence in the country's history in the case of a threat of terrorism

The cassation appeal of Anatoly Viktorovich Mylnikov, who was sentenced in absentia several months ago to 6 years and eight months of imprisonment, was rejected. In August 1999, Mylnikov, then head of the security service of one of the firms, warned law enforcement agencies that terrorist attacks were being prepared in Moscow. According to him, the terrorists demanded the release of a certain Natalia Zander. During the investigation, it turned out that this woman was Mylnikov's cohabitant, and he himself was an ordinary blackmailer. Then, apparently sensing exposure, Mylnikov disappeared from Moscow.

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