Interview of the Defendant

Anatoly Viktorovich Mylnikov, born in 1946, previously convicted (total sentence served 21 years), accused of committing crimes under:

• Part 1 of Art. 205 (threat of terrorism, i.e., committing explosions, arson, or other actions creating a danger of death, causing significant property damage or other socially dangerous consequences, if these actions are committed for the purpose of violating public safety, intimidating the population, or to exert influence on decision-making by government bodies – punishment from 5 to 10 years of imprisonment)
• Part 3 of Art. 30 (attempted crime or preparation for a crime)
• Part 4 of Art. 150 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (involvement of a minor in the commission of a serious crime).

Contract Nature of Prosecution

The contract nature of my criminal prosecution by the FSB bodies and, as I assume, that on August 16 the Moscow City Court will establish a long term of imprisonment by its verdict (two state prosecutors asked the court to sentence me to 8 years and 6 months of imprisonment) consists of the following.

• Initially, an unobjective and biased preliminary investigation was conducted against me by the senior investigator of the Investigation Service of the USFB of the Russian Federation for Moscow and the Moscow Region, Senior Lieutenant of Justice I. V. Asochakov, in criminal case No. 970, initiated on fabricated grounds on July 19, 2000, under Art. 207 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (knowingly false report of an act of terrorism).
• Then the FSB bodies realized that they had committed a violation of the law, because it was impossible to initiate a criminal case under this article and incriminate the specified corpus delicti, since, based on Art. 8, paragraph 'a' of the resolution of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of May 26, 2000 'On the declaration of amnesty in connection with the 55th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945' for those crimes where the maximum sentence does not exceed 3 years of imprisonment. Consequently, on the basis of the specified act of amnesty, it was impossible to initiate a criminal case, since Art. 207 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for a punishment from 6 months to three years.
• But the deed was done; I was already arrested on January 15, 2002, and was in the pre-trial detention center of the FSB of the Russian Federation 'Lefortovo'. The FSB bodies could not be given the opportunity for me, while at liberty, to have the opportunity to contact the media and human rights activists and inform them that back on August 30, 1999 (the first explosion on Manezh Square occurred on August 31, 1999), before all three explosions that took place in 1999 in Moscow, I contacted the central apparatus of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where I was received by responsible officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB, and reported that I had received a message about upcoming explosions in Moscow.
• The FSB bodies should have found out who sent such information to my pager, identified and detained these people. However, this was not done, and therefore they decided to lock me up for a long term of imprisonment myself, in order to hide the fact of inaction by the FSB bodies. This is arbitrariness on the part of the special services, which violates my rights and freedoms.
• Therefore, on April 24, 2002, in order not to release me from the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center, the FSB investigator for Moscow and the Moscow Region, I. V. Asochakov, on fabricated grounds, brought a new charge against me under Part 1 of Art. 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (terrorism), that I allegedly committed criminal acts consisting of a threat to commit explosions, arson, and other actions creating a danger of death.

Conclusion

Thus, I must inform the population of Russia: in case you receive any data about upcoming terrorist acts, do not hurry to run to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.