Case Summary

• On January 15, 2002, A.V. Mylnikov was brought to the Investigative Service, where he was charged with committing a crime under Art. 207 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, and a preventive measure in the form of detention was chosen.
• On January 18, March 7, and May 8, 2002, the period of the preliminary investigation was extended by the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation to seven months and twenty-four days, to nine months and twenty-three days, and to ten months and twenty-three days, respectively.
• On March 1 and April 26, 2002, the period of detention for the accused Mylnikov was extended by the Prosecutor of Moscow to 4 and 5 months, respectively.

• On March 13, 2002, the accused Mylnikov appealed the legality and validity of the extension of the detention period in court; however, by decision of the Lefortovo Inter-Municipal Court of Moscow, his appeal was denied.

• References: Vol. 1, pp. 1-66; Vol. 2, pp. 60-68, 129-143

• On June 10, 2002, in accordance with the instructions of the Prosecutor of Moscow (pursuant to Art. 211 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR), the preventive measure in the form of detention applied to A.V. Mylnikov was changed to bail.

• References: Vol. 2, pp. 200, 214

Preliminary Investigation Findings

The preliminary investigation established that in the summer of 1999, at the apartment of N.V. Zander at the address: Moscow, Svobodny Prospekt, 28, apt. 82, who was in custody at that time in connection with criminal prosecution, A.V. Mylnikov, in the presence of his subordinate—a freelance employee of the security service of the "Zolotye Stranitsy" [Golden Pages] publishing house, the minor A.E. Tumasyan—personally prepared the handwritten text of an "Appeal" on behalf of the so-called "Volunteers of Russia," in which a demand was made to the authorities to release N.V. Zander, who had been arrested by the MVD bodies, and a threat was expressed—"communications, buildings, etc. will be blown up" every 7 days if the above demand was not met by September 1, 1999. He handed the text of the said "Appeal" to A.E. Tumasyan and persuaded her to prepare letters addressed to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation and the editorial office of "Novaya Gazeta." At the same time, he instructed her on the procedure for preparing the letters: type the text on a personal computer belonging to one of her acquaintances, destroy the file with the text, and have the addresses on the envelopes written by outsiders, preferably random persons.

A.E. Tumasyan, having produced, according to the recommendations received from A.V. Mylnikov, an unidentified number of printed copies of the "Appeal" on the PC of M.M. Neudakhina at the latter's place of residence at the address: Moscow, Kravchenko St., 12, apt. 331, placed them in mailing envelopes; the addresses of the recipients on them were written at her request by unidentified teenagers, after which she handed them to A.V. Mylnikov, some of which he sent by mail in late August 1999 to the addresses of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation and the editorial office of "Novaya Gazeta." A.E. Tumasyan handed over the handwritten text of the "Appeal" executed by A.V. Mylnikov, along with her statement, to the UFSB of the RF for Moscow and the Moscow Region.¹

• References: Vol. 1, pp. 42-66, 139-146, 158-161, 165-170, 186-277; Vol. 2, pp. 2-6, 8-16, 36-38, 40-44, 46-50, 51-55

¹ On April 24, 2002, a resolution was issued refusing to initiate a criminal case against A.E. Tumasyan on the fact of terrorism based on paragraph 2 of Art. 5 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR for lack of corpus delicti.