For the first time, Martsinkevich gained fame as an NS skinhead and leader of the interregional branch of the neo-Nazi youth organization Format 18.

Within the framework of Martsinkevich's "Restruct" movement, there were about ten projects, among which the most famous was Occupy Pedophilia, the stated goal of which was to fight pedophiles and promote the ideas of National Socialism among young people. Martsinkevich's methods in many cases did not comply with the law, however, they even led to the initiation of a criminal case against a high-ranking bailiff of the Federal Bailiff Service of the Russian Federation. After the arrest of Martsinkevich and the initiation of numerous criminal cases against members of Restrukt, the movement announced its self-dissolution in 2014.

Martsinkevich was sentenced three times to criminal punishment under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. For the first time, a criminal case was initiated against him in 2007 for disrupting a liberal colloquium at the Bilingua club under fascist slogans. The second time Martsinkevich was sentenced in 2009 to three years for a video with racist content, which was qualified by the court as inciting ethnic hatred. Memories of criminal prosecution and three and a half years of imprisonment formed the basis of Martsinkevich's book Restruct, written after his release. Upon his release, Martsinkevich did not work anywhere, kept a video blog, lived off the funds he received from those who wanted to participate in the “hunt for pedophiles”, from conducting paid seminars on life in prison, on how to shoplift, etc. . For the third time, Martsinkevich was charged under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for publishing scandalous videos in the fall of 2013. On August 15, 2014, he was sentenced to five years in a strict regime colony ( later deadline punishment was reduced to 2 years and 10 months). In the fall of 2016, Martsinkevich was supposed to be released, but already in the colony new charges were brought against him and he was again taken into custody. On June 27, 2017, Martsinkevich was sentenced to 10 years in prison in a strict regime colony in the case of attacks on people who sold spices, which were carried out as part of the Occupy-Drugophilia project. In May 2018, the Moscow City Court overturned the sentence, but in December of the same year, the Babushkinsky Court of Moscow re-sentenced Martsinkevich to the same punishment. Along with him , a number of his associates were sentenced to real terms of imprisonment .

early years

According to Maxim Martsinkevich, he is of Russian-Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian origin. Parents - Sergey Evgenievich and Victoria Leonidovna Martsinkevich. The mother does not share the son's extremist views, the father supports the son's convictions. Tesak spoke about this in his first book, Destruct, released in audio format: in it, the nationalist tells about his family, youth, events from college admission to the first court verdict. About my personal life In September 2012, Martsinkevich, in an interview with Lenta.ru, said that he was not married and had no children. Has an interest in journalism.

The Format 18 organization was banned by a court in September 2010 for extremism.

The film "Russia 88"

On July 2, 2007, about 10 police officers from the T Center and the Lynx special forces detachment arrested Martsinkevich by ambushing him at the sports club where he came to train. On February 18, 2008, Martsinkevich was sentenced to three years under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“inciting hatred or enmity”). Novaya Gazeta noted that the investigation turned a blind eye to the main episodes of the nationalist's criminal activities, and the court assigned him a lenient sentence.

Second criminal case

In 2006, 20 people dressed in white Ku Klux Klan robes staged the execution of a Tajik drug dealer; the process was filmed and then posted online on the YouTube video service. The organizers were Maxim Martsinkevich and Artyom Zuev, who played the role of the Great Dragon of the Moscow region. He owns the voiceover.

At the trial, in a conversation with journalists, Martsinkevich tried to predict the verdict:

I think they will give 5 years, because drug dealers are, as I understand it, protected by our Constitution social group. In principle, of course, I respect the decision of our court, and, apparently, I will have to apologize to the drug dealers. I am very glad that I did not speak out against pedophiles anywhere, because then, I think, I would have received another article, and maybe even more serious. Because pedophiles, I suspect so, are an even more protected social group.

On January 16, 2009, Maxim Martsinkevich was re-convicted to 3 years under article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Inciting hatred or enmity on the grounds of nationality or religious affiliation." The court took into account the positive characteristics of Martsinkevich. Taking into account the previous term, the sentence was 3.5 years. Artyom Zuev received 3 years probation.

On December 31, 2010, Martsinkevich was released from custody due to serving his sentence. Six months after his release, he tried to run for the Coordinating Council of the Russian Opposition, was registered as a participant in the elections, but was subsequently disqualified due to "insufficient opposition" and Nazi inclinations.

"Occupy Pedophilia"

After leaving the colony, Martsinkevich organized the Occupy Pedophilia movement, whose members were engaged in beating and humiliating people who are considered pedophiles. The participants of the movement found their victims via the Internet and got acquainted with them on behalf of minors, then offered to meet. Martsinkevich himself and several members of the movement came to the meeting. All bullying, including Martsinkevich's favorite method of reprisal against "suspects" - pouring urine, was recorded on video, and then the videos were posted on the Internet. Law enforcement agencies did not react, leaving the actions of the participants in the movement with impunity.

In September 2013, the attention of television and the print press was attracted by a rally organized by Martsinkevich in an apartment on Baumanskaya Street, as a result of which Andrey Kaminov, the former deputy head of the Federal Bailiff Service of the Moscow Region, was arrested and charged with indecent acts sexual in nature in relation to a minor.

Martsinkevich himself called Occupy Pedophilia "a social project aimed at promoting National Socialism, revealing the essence of liberal views and drawing public attention to this problem". To participate in the "hunt for pedophiles", which the participants called "safari", it was necessary to pay a certain amount of money to Martsinkevich.

Criminal prosecution in Belarus

On February 14, 2013, Martsinkevich was detained in Belarus for a fight and placed in a pre-trial detention center in Minsk (on February 24 of the same year he was released), after which a criminal case was initiated against him for hooliganism with the use of weapons. The media reported that Martsinkevich was detained for a fight with fans of the Belarusian football club“Partizans”, who consider themselves anti-fascists, and the purpose of Martsinkevich’s visit to Minsk was laser correction in the eyes (Tesak had a vision of -7). On March 5, 2013, Tesak was allowed to leave Belarus, and on April 16 of the same year, the case against Martsinkevich was closed.

Third criminal case

In autumn 2013, Martsinkevich left Russia for Belarus.

On December 13, 2013, Martsinkevich was arrested in absentia by the Kuntsevsky District Court on charges of extremism. The reason for the accusation of extremism under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred or enmity and humiliation of human dignity with the use of violence) were three videos on YouTube, where Tesak speaks in the spirit of the skinhead subculture. In one of the videos, the neo-Nazi, according to the examination, showed an act of disrespect towards veterans of the Great Patriotic War in the review of the film "Stalingrad" and drew a number of inappropriate parallels between the treacherous nature of the feelings of a Russian girl who felt sympathy for a German officer in the film, and the feelings of a girl , entering in the current conditions in connection with representatives of the indigenous peoples of the Muslim East. The investigation also checked the videos of the Occupy Pedophilia movement. Martsinkevich himself claimed that the new case was the result of an order from the "pedolobby" and revenge. Tesak saw the connection between the initiation of a criminal case and the fact that he exposed Andrei Kaminov, deputy head of the FSSP near Moscow department, who came on a date with a teenager arranged by Martsinkevich, in pedophilia.

After the initiation of a criminal case in the fall of 2013, Martsinkevich, who learned about this in advance, fled through Belarus to Cuba. According to media reports, Tesak planned to stay on Freedom Island and continue to publish videos from there. On January 17, 2014, Tesak was detained by law enforcement in Cuba. On January 27, 2014, he was expelled from Cuba for violating immigration laws and sent in handcuffs on a Havana-Moscow flight, while crossing the border he was detained by Russian law enforcement agencies. On January 29, Martsinkevich was charged in person in Moscow.

On July 30, 2014, hearings on the merits of the case began in the Kuntsevsky District Court of Moscow. Martsinkevich was accused of "inciting ethnic hatred" (part 2 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to the indictment, the defendant posted three extremist videos on his page on the VKontakte social network from September 14 to October 14, 2013: reviews of the films Stalingrad and Okolofutbola, as well as the Throw out the Chock video, which contain psychological threats . The court granted the request of the prosecutor's office, on August 15, 2014, sentencing Martsinkevich to five years in prison to be served in a strict regime colony. On November 11 of the same year, the Moscow City Court, having considered the complaint of the convict, reduced the sentence to 2 years and 10 months.

Other incidents

In October 2014, it became known that a new criminal case was opened against Martsinkevich under the article on hooliganism.

In November 2014, it became known that another criminal case had been initiated in Moscow under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred) for writing and publishing the book "Restrukt", the book itself was recognized as extremist.

Fourth criminal case

On March 18, 2015, it became known that Martsinkevich was facing new charges of robbery and hooliganism.
Tesak was found guilty of attacks on citizens; while one of the victims died. The prosecutor requested for Martsinkevich 11 years and 6 months in prison to be served in a strict regime colony. Charges were brought under articles: 282 (“Inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity”), 162 (“Robbery”), 167 (“Deliberate destruction or damage to property”) and 213 (“Hooliganism”). The judge of the Babushkinsky Court of Moscow, Alexander Glukhov, partially granted the request of the prosecutor, on June 27, 2017, sentenced Martsinkevich to 10 years in a strict regime colony (while the sentence is calculated from January 27, 2014), according to other reports from June 27, 2017. One of his accomplices also received 10 years, the rest - 3-5 years.

On May 21, 2018, it became known that the Moscow City Court overturned the verdict of the Babushkinsky Court of June 27, 2017 and sent the case to the court of first instance for a new trial; the measure of restraint of liberty remained unchanged. In December 2018, the Babushkinsky Court of Moscow re-sentenced Martsinkevich to 10 years in a strict regime colony. The defendant filed an appeal against the verdict. He is serving his sentence in a double cell in the federal prison SIZO-1 Matrosskaya Tishina.

Notes

1. Maxim Tesak Martsinkevich vs. Dmitry "Enteo" Tsorionov YouTube
2. A neo-Nazi nicknamed Tesak detained in Cuba, Gazeta.ru (January 18, 2014). Retrieved March 4, 2014.
3. Interview with Maxim Martsinkevich (Tesak) on the radio
4. The Moscow prosecutor's office suspects the Format-18 association of extremism, Noise magazine (September 10, 2010). Retrieved March 4, 2014.
5. Khripun, Vyacheslav. , Kommersant-Ukraine (July 29, 2013). Retrieved March 4, 2014.
6. A well-known public activist - Maxim "Tesak", hunted pedophiles in Zaporozhye, Our City Plus (November 6, 2013). Retrieved March 4, 2014.
7. Two pedophiles caught in Zaporozhye, Z-City (November 5, 2013). Retrieved March 4, 2014.
8. Russians. Young. Evil. , Novosibirsk: Honestly (November 6, 2013). Retrieved March 4, 2014.
9. Alekseev, Fedor. "Russian March-2", marched to Pervomaisky Square, Continent Siberia Online (November 7, 2013). Retrieved March 4, 2014.
10. "White Hundred": Tesak's heirs
11. The court banned the activities of the extremist organization "Format-18", RAPSI (December 20, 2010). Retrieved 1 July 2011.
12. I don't want to go to jail again, Lenta.ru (September 18, 2012). Retrieved March 4, 2014.
13. Nationalist M. Martsinkevich was arrested in absentia for extremism, Society, RBC (December 13, 2013). Retrieved March 4, 2014.
14. Nationalist Tesak expelled from Cuba detained in Moscow
15. In Moscow, the nationalist "Tesak" was charged. // RBC, 01/29/2014
16. Nationalist Tesak received 5 years in a strict regime colony, Rosbalt (August 15, 2014). Retrieved 15 August 2014.
17. The Moscow City Court commuted Tesak's sentence to 2 years and 10 months, Society, Gazeta.ru (November 11, 2014). Retrieved November 11, 2014.
18. Nationalist Tesak was sentenced to 10 years in prison for attacking people Politics, RBC (December 29, 2018). Retrieved December 29, 2018.
19. Neo-Nazi Tesak was sentenced to 10 years for "Occupy-Drugophilia", Society, RBC (June 27, 2017). Retrieved June 27, 2017.
20. Tesak's books
21. Cleaver was ambushed by partisans // Moskovsky Komsomolets, 02/18/2013
22. One of the skinhead leaders was detained in Moscow, Lenta.ru. Archived
23. Tesak was accused of inciting ethnic hatred, Lenta.ru. Archived from the original on February 27, 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
24. Krivets, Natalia. Tesak told Komsomolskaya Pravda about his adventures in Minsk, Komsomolskaya Pravda (February 28, 2013). Retrieved March 4, 2014.
25. Website www.rulit.net. Maxim Martsinkevich. Restruct. pp. 1-12
26. Site closure Format 18
27. The Investigative Committee recognized the authenticity of the video recording of the execution of a Tajik and a Dagestani, Lenta.ru. Archived from the original on February 27, 2012. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
28. Interview of P. Bardin to Novaya Gazeta
29. Maxim Kononenko. Demons, Vzglyad.ru (September 11, 2012). Retrieved 18 August 2014.
30. Ruslan Kadrmatov. Came for Tesak. One of the leaders of Moscow skinheads was detained, Lenta.ru (July 4, 2007). Retrieved 18 August 2014.
31. Anatoly Karavaev.

Maxim Martsinkevich, better known under the pseudonym Tesak (he received such a formidable nickname because of his love for edged weapons), is a well-known person both in the Internet community and among neo-Nazi organizations. He became famous thanks to his nationalist views, as well as shooting videos about how he and like-minded people reveal the identities of pedophiles. In 2014, Martsinkevich was again sent to prison, and now everyone is interested in the question of why Tesak was imprisoned this time.

A little about the personality of Maxim Martsinkevich

With early years Tesak was an ardent supporter of nationalism, so in 2005 he created his own neo-Nazi organization called Format 18. It got its name due to a combination of letters 1st means A - Adolf, and 8th H - Hitler. Tesak himself never hid this, moreover, he always spoke with admiration of the Nazi ruler.

With his like-minded people, he fought against the non-Russian population of the country, which, in his opinion, behaved inappropriately. Since Maxim loved the public, he regularly released videos in which he expressed his opinion about the situation in the country. The story about how he and the guys in Ku Klux Klan costumes butchers a Tajik guy made a special noise. As it turned out later, the video was staged, so there was no reason to initiate a criminal case.

Why was Tesak imprisoned in 2007?

As many people know, this is not Martsinkevich's first arrest. So, in 2007, Tesak was imprisoned. For what? The reason was the statement of Alexei Navalny, a well-known political figure and activist. It was he who witnessed the nationalist intrigues of Martsinkevich and considered it his duty to punish the skinhead.

So, why was Tesak imprisoned in 2007? Maxim Martsinkevich, inspired by his nationalist idea, decided to make an open statement to the people. To do this, he broke into the Bilingua club with his group, where they were held. After a short speech, he, along with his guys, shouted the famous “Sieg Heill” for several minutes.

On July 10 of the same year, Tesak was arrested and charged under Art. 282.2 CC Russian Federation. At that time, this was a new part of the Criminal Code, which prohibited any actions leading to inciting hatred between people on ethnic grounds. The court found Martsinkevich guilty and sentenced him to three years in prison, a little later he was given another sentence under the same article. This time, the reason was an old video in which he cracks down on a Tajik drug dealer.

That's what Tesak was imprisoned for in 2007. In total, Martsinkevich served 3.5 years. By the way, in 2010 the Format 18 organization was officially banned by law, as it was considered extremist.

Public organization "Restruct"

After his release from prison, Martsinkevich continued his nationalist activities. Since his old organization was closed, he created a new social movement called Restruct.

Along with the name, priorities have changed, now Tesak began to actively fight against pedophilia. To do this, with the help of figureheads, he appointed meetings for lovers of minors, at which he caught them. Everything that happened was recorded on camera, after which the video was uploaded to the Internet, thereby exposing the identity of the pedophile.

Despite the cruelty of Martsinkevich's methods, many supported him, and his Payback Pedophilia program had a fairly high rating on the network.

Why was Tesak imprisoned for 5 years in 2014?

At the end of November 2013, a Moscow court opened another case against Maxim Martsinkevich. The basis for it was all the same. A few days later, the court decided to take Tesak into custody until all the circumstances were clarified.

Having learned about the case in advance, Tesak left the country - first to Belarus, and then to Cuba. But he did not succeed in hiding for a long time, on January 17, 2014, he was arrested by the Cuban police. The reason was the lack of a passport, which had been stolen from him the day before by an unknown person. But the authorities did not look into this matter, on January 27 they sent the activist home by plane, where he was met by Russian

Six months later, the Kuntsevsky court delivered its verdict - capital punishment. Therefore, in July 2014, the cleaver was sent to a maximum security prison for 5 years. True, in November of the same year, the court commuted the sentence, reducing the term to 2 years and 10 months.

But still, why was Tesak imprisoned (2014)? According to the court, the basis for opening the case was the videos in which Martsinkevich called for reprisals against the “chocks”. At least, this is how it was established. Although Maxim himself is sure that he was ordered because he crossed the road to many influential people.

The court sentenced neo-Nazi Maksim Martsinkevich, better known as Tesak, to ten years in prison for inciting hatred, robbery, hooliganism and damaging property. He will spend them in a strict regime colony

Maxim Martsinkevich (Photo: Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS)

The Babushkinsky Court of Moscow sentenced neo-Nazi leader Maxim Martsinkevich, better known under the pseudonym Tesak, to ten years in prison in a strict regime colony in the case of an attack on people who sold spices. This is reported by TASS from the courtroom.

“Recognize Martsinkevich guilty and sentence him to ten years in a strict regime colony,” the judge announced the verdict. At the same time, the term of punishment will be calculated from January 27, 2014, when he was first sentenced in the case of the Occupy-Drugophilia action.

Maxim Martsinkevich was found guilty of robbery (part 2 of article 162 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), of intentional destruction and damage to property (part 2 of article 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), as well as of hooliganism (part 2 of article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). He was also accused of inciting hatred and enmity (Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) for the book Restrukt he wrote, which was included in the register of extremist materials. The article was ultimately excluded due to the statute of limitations.

The prosecutor requested 11 and a half years in a strict regime colony for the neo-Nazi, but judge Alexander Glukhov softened this requirement.

The court also passed sentences on the remaining nine defendants in the case, participants in Restrukt, they were sentenced to terms of three to ten years in prison. Martsinkevich's accomplice Dmitry Sheldyashov also received ten years in a strict regime colony.

Stanislav Kotlovsky, Georgy Kepteni, Vasily Lapshin and Elizaveta Simonova were sentenced to three years in a penal colony, Yevdokim Knyazev and Roman Maksimov to five years in a penal colony, and Mikhail Shalankevich to six. The youngest member of the movement, Alexander Shankin, who at the time of the crime was underage, was sentenced by the court to six years in an educational colony.

The investigation found that in 2013-2014, Restrukt members attacked people with stun guns, gas cartridges and metal batons. They explained their actions by the implementation of socially significant projects, such as countering the spread of drugs. Alleged drug dealers were beaten by members of the movement, their property was taken away and they were doused with dyes.

In total, according to the court and the investigation, Martsinkevich and members of Restrukt were involved in the attack on eight people, one of whom died from injuries.

Martsinkevich was detained in January 2014 in Cuba at the request of Interpol, after which he was deported to Russia. He was found guilty of extremism three times (in 2007, 2009 and 2014). In August 2014, he was sentenced to five years in prison for inciting ethnic and religious hatred, but three months later, in November, the court reduced this term to two years and ten months.

Martsinkevich became most famous after he created the Occupy Pedophilia movement in 2013, which found pedophiles and staged violent acts of intimidation against them. He founded the movement after his release from prison, where he served time for inciting hatred.

The Moscow City Court overturned the court verdict to Maxim Martsinkevich, who is known by the nickname "Tesak". Last year, the Babushkinsky Court of Moscow sentenced a public figure to a ten-year prison term. A member of the Restrukt organization banned in the Russian Federation was accused of extremism and inciting ethnic hatred. Previously, "Tesak" became famous for its activities aimed at combating drug dealers and pedophiles.

Maxim Martsinkevich was sentenced three times to punishment under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. "Tesak" promoted the National Socialist ideology, for which he went to court several times.

The reason for the latest arrest was the videos of an unacceptable nature that Martsinkevich filmed for his Youtube channel. The convict was supposed to be released in 2016, but he was charged with new charges.

On July 27, 2017, the Babushkinsky Court of the capital sentenced Maxim Martsinkevich to 10 years in prison. Tesak's accomplices received a slightly shorter term - from 3 to 10 years in prison.

The reason for the extension of the term of the former participants of "Occupy-narcophilia" was the fact that they attacked other people. In particular, on persons of Caucasian nationality. Among the victims were traders of smoking mixtures.

In total, ten members of the banned movement, including Tesak, appeared before the court. As law enforcement agencies managed to find out, between 2013 and 2014, Occupy Necrophilia committed about 9 attacks on sellers with prohibited smoking mixtures.

One of the spice dealers from Azerbaijan was killed during an attack by extremists. The rest suffered during the beatings with the use of third-party special equipment.

"Occupy Necrophilia" took away mobile phones and money from drug dealers. Based on this, the court decided to punish Maxim Martsinkevich and other members of the organization not only for extremism, but also for hooliganism, robbery and deliberate destruction of other people's property.

Earlier, Martsinkevich was sentenced to a four-year term in a colony for a video in which he staged the execution of a Tajik drug dealer. While at large, the convict published the book "Restrukt", in which he described the details of the hunt for him by law enforcement agencies for three and a half years.

Where is Tesak now?

To date, Maxim Martsinkevich, nicknamed "Tesak" is in prison. A criminal case was opened against a public figure, so after the verdict he was sent to a strict regime colony. On May 21, 2018, it became known that the Moscow City Court decided to review the sentence to Martsinkevich, which was handed down in 2017.

The convict had the right to appeal against the verdict of the court. Tesak's lawyers helped him get his sentence overturned. The punishments for accomplices of Maxim Martsinkevich were also reduced: Dmitry Shildyashov received up to 5 years and 10 months in a strict regime colony, Roman Maksimov - up to 4 years and 10 months in a general regime colony, Alexander Shankin - up to 5 years and 10 months in a general regime colony.

"Tesak" considers himself innocent. According to a member of the ultra-radical organization, the government is pursuing a dual policy and, instead of drug dealers, punishes those who fight them.

In the Babushkinsky court of the capital, nine members of the Restrukt youth nationalist movement and its leader Maxim Martsinkevich, nicknamed Tesak, were sentenced. He and another person involved were sentenced to ten years in prison, the rest received from three to five years. The defendants were found guilty of hooliganism, robbery, causing grievous bodily harm to one of the victims, and Martsinkevich was also found guilty of extremism. Young people do not plead guilty, claiming that they fought evil. tried to understand the history of the most massive, according to its members, nationalist movement in Russia.

Behind the scenes

In June 2014, Zaur Alyshov, beaten by Restrukt activists, died in the capital's hospital, whom young people, as they claim, caught selling narcotic mixtures - spices. This was Alyshov's second meeting with Martsinkevich's associates in one day: the activists did not like the fact that the police released Zaur, who they had captured, to freedom.

Not all defendants agree that these actions should be qualified as infliction of grievous bodily harm resulting in the death of the victim (Article 111 Part 4). “The huckster, who was handed over to the police, then attacked the activists. Those exceeded the limits of self-defense, and he died, - one of the defendants, Evdokim Knyazev, who received eight years in prison, told Lente.ru. - It's sad, very sad. Yes, the activists who did this repent in court and are ready to accept punishment. But just for the excess.

The case file mentions eight attacks committed by Restrukt activists. The actions of young people were qualified under several criminal articles, depending on the specific circumstances.

A gas canister, a telescopic baton, handcuffs - the activists, according to the investigation, showed frank and unjustified cruelty, while the substances confiscated from their victims were not considered drugs at that time, which is supported by the then examinations.

The prosecutor managed, relying on testimonies and other materials, to prove in court that not all the exploits of these guys were recorded in videos about “people's fighters against evil” known to the entire Runet. For example, in July 2014, the hunt for a drug dealer near the Sokol metro station failed. Several people left after that, while others stayed and attacked a man of Asian appearance, as they considered him the guard of the escaped “huckster”. The victim was beaten, 10 thousand rubles and a cell phone were taken from him.

Frame: TV Restruct / YouTube

Of all the episodes considered in court, the case of a migrant from Uzbekistan, to whom Martsinkevich tore a shirt worth 88,000 rubles, after catching him selling spices, looks really controversial. “For selfish purposes, having colluded with a group of people, I committed a robbery against Khamidillo Mukhtarov, stealing a flashlight phone from him for 1,000 rubles,” Tesak parodied the accusation during the court hearings. - The victim Mukhtarov wrote a statement only a year and a half later, when he, illegally residing on the territory of the Russian Federation, having a ban on entry, was found by employees of the Center for Combating Extremism. Moreover, they found it by watching a video with his capture on the sale of spice, where close-up Mukhtarov's passport was shown."

Martsinkevich considers it insane that the prosecution considered hooliganism - that is, a gross violation of public order expressed in contempt for society and morality - the struggle of civil activists against drug trafficking. According to the prosecutor, however, there are no facts of the sale of a substance prohibited for circulation in the episodes under consideration, but there is an attempt to cover up open robbery with good intentions.

Showman and Nazi

32-year-old Maxim Martsinkevich is a professional builder, that is, he received a specialized education in the capital's college, then studied at MISI, but, as far as is known, he never graduated from the university. He did not serve in the army, having received a "white ticket". On his page on VKontakte, it is reported that Maxim nevertheless worked for a couple of years in his specialty - a design technician and design engineer. Subsequently, the young man did not have a permanent job.

In the early 2000s, Martsinkevich was an ordinary skinhead. As he himself told in an interview with the British journalist Ross Kemp, his hatred for visitors arose in 1999, after the explosion of the house on Guryanov Street, where his girlfriend lived. He was a member of Semyon Tokmakov's group "Russian Target", a member of the People's Nationalist Party of Alexander Ivanov-Sukharevsky, eventually headed its regional branch, but soon left the party due to a conflict with the leadership.

Tesak began to actively form the image of the Nazi showman since 2005. He created the Format-18 Creative Studio (subsequently, its activities were banned by the court). Martsinkevich and his comrades-in-arms filmed and posted videos about the life of skinheads: training in gyms, trips to paramilitary training camps, and attacks on people of non-Slavic appearance. The latter were especially popular with users. It is believed that some of these actions were staged, and some were completely documentary.

Frame: TV Restruct / YouTube

Tesak sought to make the works of his studio as attractive as possible to the viewer. Attention was paid to editing, musical accompaniment, didactic comments in the neo-Nazi spirit were flavored with a fair amount of humor, which was not in the videos of other skinhead and Nazi groups.

By 2007, Martsinkevich had become a recognizable personality thanks to his videos. In the same year, a documentary film by Ross Kemp from the four-season series "Gangs" was released on the Discovery Channel, dedicated to Russian neo-Nazis from the National Socialist Society (NSO) banned in Russia. Cleaver is one of the main characters of this tape. His "Format-18" at that time collaborated with the NSO, but already in September began to conduct an information campaign against this organization.

In the same 2007, Martsinkevich and his associates held a rally in the Bilingua club, where a blogger gaining popularity led political debates. Tesak got into news feeds and TV shows, and then went to jail, as Navalny wrote a statement against him in. Maxim was accused of extremism (Article 282 of the Criminal Code): in the club he openly zigged, shouting Nazi slogans and threats.

During the first term, Tesak received another term (under the same article 282 of the Criminal Code) for a video with a staging of the execution of a migrant from Central Asia that gained particular popularity on the network.

In 2009, the screens out Feature Film"Russia 88" is about a gang of skinheads posting campaign videos on the Internet. The prototype of the main character, whose role he plays, was Maxim Martsinkevich.

In December 2010, Tesak, who by that time had become the most famous skinhead in the country, was released, in the same month his Format-18 was recognized as an extremist organization. At liberty, Martsinkevich begins to earn money with lectures and trainings, including on how to steal in shops, but most importantly, he publishes the book "Restruct": a kind of memoir about life in prison, during which there was a "restructuring" - that is, a complication and systematization of the worldview author. In 2014, the book was recognized as extremist, and its distribution formed the plot of a new charge against Martsinkevich under Article 282 of the Criminal Code.

Photo: Kirill Kallinikov / RIA Novosti

In the background on the right is Maksim Martsinkevich (Tesak), accused of attacking people whom he considered to be drug dealers.

Right drift

In 2011, Martsinkevich's friends came up with the idea to create the eponymous public organization Restrukt. According to a source for Lenta.ru, this was an attempt to give the nationalist movement in Russia a fundamental new form, where the main attention would be paid not to politics and not to the fight against foreigners, but to the protection of traditional values. Martsinkevich became the face of this movement and its symbol.

It is possible that the nationalists decided on such a turn in the wake of the general pressure of the right-wing forces. In 2010, the activities of the "Slavic Union" were banned, on next year- Movement against illegal immigration (). In the spring of 2011, a high-profile trial took place in the case of the Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists (BORN, also banned in Russia). In May 2011, one of its leaders received a life sentence, and his girlfriend - 18 years in prison for the murder of a lawyer and a journalist.

The first public oriented project"Restrukta" became a hunt for pedophiles. The source of Lenta.ru noted that Martsinkevich and his comrades were inspired by a group of young people who, through social networks, lured a school teacher from the Tula region to meet with a minor. The story about them and other cases of people's lynching was shown in the NTVshniki program in October 2011.

Acting through left-wing accounts or through profiles of real teenagers, lovers of sex with minors were assigned meetings, where Martsinkevich’s film crew came along with the “bait”.

Young people reproduced techniques typical for operational shooting: “detained” citizens were asked to introduce themselves, show documents, they were interrogated, demanding, by presenting evidence, to confess to illegal intentions and repent. Various ways of humiliation were added as a highlight.

By analogy with the opposition action “Occupy Abai”, which took place in May 2012 at Chistye Prudy, the project was called “Occupy Pedophilia”. The videos posted on the Internet were very popular. Young people appeared in the regions who began to copy the methodology for detecting pedophiles and even appearance leader, right down to the hairstyle.

Photo: Maxim Martsinkevich's page on VKontakte

Then came the project "Occupy-narcophile", the purpose of which was to fight the spice dealers. Here everything was even simpler: young people called the ads pasted everywhere and made appointments. But it was this project that eventually brought the activists to the dock. There were also "Occupy-Evict" - against illegal migration and "Occupy-Alkophilia" - against the sale of alcohol to teenagers.

According to the source of Lenta.ru, during the heyday of Restrukt, by the beginning of 2014, branches and groups of associates of the movement appeared in more than 40 regions of the country, as well as in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Moldova.

The leadership sought to keep these cells under control so that local activists would not cripple people under the Restrukt brand and thereby nullify all the efforts of the organizers to develop it as a legal public structure.

The organization gradually gained strength, but some considered Martsinkevich's notoriety, which at first played into the hands of the movement, one of the obstacles to the further development of Restrukt. Maxim at that time was invited to Russian television as an expert and, dressed in a jacket and tie, he looked less and less like the former reckless skinhead Tesak.

New faces appeared more and more often in Restrukt's commercials: smiling young people without a criminal past and Nazi tattoos. However, this did not prevent Martsinkevich from earning on his authority among nationalists: to advertise in his videos sports nutrition and sell goods through regional offices. Maxim even created a whole financial pyramid Tesakmoney.com.

Izmailovsky overclocking

In November 2013, when active actions began on the Kiev Maidan, they came to Tesak with a search in connection with a criminal case on extremism, where he was a witness. Martsinkevich considered this an attempt to send him to jail, organized by drug dealers and officials convicted of pedophilia by him. Tesak went to Ukraine and then to Cuba.

Meanwhile, the law enforcers' claims related to Martsinkevich's reviews of the films Stalingrad and Okolofutbol published online, as well as a video calling for the expulsion of foreigners. All these works had nothing to do with Restrukt, but contained statements that were recognized as extremist.

Defendant Martsinkevich during the announcement of the verdict in the case of inciting ethnic hatred. The Khamovniki court sentenced Maxim Martsinkevich to 3.5 years in prison.

In January 2014, Tesak was deported from Cuba to his homeland and imprisoned in. Since then, Martsinkevich has not been released again. On this, by the way, a line of defense is built: Tesak is accused of distributing the book Restruct, which was recognized as extremist after he was deprived of his freedom, which means that he formally did not have the opportunity to distribute anything.

The dispersal of the movement, which the source of Lenta.ru called the most massive not only among nationalist, but also among other informal youth organizations, began in the summer of 2014.

In June, the Izmailovo Concert Hall was to host the first congress of the Restrukt movement participants, who arrived from all over the country and from abroad. They were going to adopt the organization's charter and probably choose a new leadership. But the convention was cancelled. Instead of a clip prepared by the organizers, another one was shown on the screen of the concert hall - as the media wrote, filmed by the security forces.

“Restruct and Tesak are engaged in commercial activities: they trade in protein, create financial pyramids, sell books, branded clothes and other paraphernalia,” one of the members of the movement Evdokim Knyazev said from the screen. - My project was engaged in catching people selling spices, painting them with paint, humiliating, beating, holding, thereby violating the legislation of the Russian Federation. Involve minors in it. On the other hand, the management team made money on this, including raiding, where they earned about 600 thousand.

The storm of indignation in the hall was interrupted by OMON officers, who put all the delegates on the floor. Four “restructors” were detained; the rest, having rewritten the data, were allowed to go home.

Knyazev explained to Lente.ru that footage of his interrogation was then shown: “I didn’t say anything terrible: the organization was engaged in business, legal business. Maxim sold protein, there were publics selling weapons - knives and gas cartridges. Someone was engaged in pyramids, legal ones.”

And in August 2014, Martsinkevich was sentenced in the case of inappropriate reviews. He received five years in prison, but later the term was knocked off, and in 2016 he had a chance to leave the zone. However, he has already become a defendant in a new case, the trial of which ended with a verdict on June 27.

The history of the rather extensive charitable and educational activities of Restrukt remained little known. According to the source, members of the movement managed to get closer in this direction with many educational organizations and cultural institutions. "With everyone former partners law enforcement agencies held conversations and even fired someone,” he said.

“We disbanded the movement in 2014. For a long time there was no agreement on this issue, - 19-year-old law student Elizaveta Simonova, one of Martsinkevich's associates, who was sentenced by the Babushkinsky court to three years in prison, told Lente.ru. - With pain in our hearts, we came to the conclusion that it was necessary, because they would continue to imprison "restructors" both in Moscow and in the regions, which we did not want. survived. The good news is that we have achieved certain goals: the adoption of a law against pedophiles and spice.”

According to one version, the increased attention to Restrukt by the security forces in 2014 was due to the fact that future fighters of Ukrainian nationalist battalions lived under the roof of this organization for the time being - for example, Roman Zheleznov, nicknamed Zukhel, who is accused at home in mercenarism for membership in the infamous Azov Battalion (an organization banned in Russia).

However, Malyuta was not in the ranks of Restrukt.

Children of "Restruct"

Elizaveta Simonova is one of hundreds of teenagers who have gone through Restruct. “In August 2013, I met Sasha Shankin (sentenced to six years in a correctional colony - approx. "Tapes.ru"), he called me to the raid "Occupy-narcophile". I liked it, I always attended events whenever possible,” she recalls.

In 2014, Simonova has already become one of the leaders of the movement. “In quotation marks - because there was no hierarchy in the movement,” the girl adds. “For example, she began organizing Occupy-alkophilia projects.”

Today, three years later, Simonova says she does not regret what happened. “Everything was done with the best intentions. Moreover, I didn’t steal anything from anyone, I didn’t use violence against anyone - I have nothing to be ashamed of, ”says Lisa.

According to the girl, her contribution is that about 30 stores that sold alcohol or cigarettes to minors were brought to administrative responsibility and fined 10-20 thousand rubles, and some - 300 thousand. “They didn’t do that anymore in these outlets, we held repeated actions there,” the activist explains.

Parents always supported Lisa, and she herself says that "from childhood she was receptive to the purity of the nation and justice in everything." The girl believes that one of the factors that influenced the dispersal of "Restrukt" was the events that took place "in the near abroad." Another reason, in her opinion, was that "the state, so to speak, is ashamed to follow the lead of active citizens who point out acute gaps."

Simonova did not consider such an option as getting a job in the internal affairs bodies. “In order to somehow fight evil, it is necessary to occupy the highest positions in state structures. While a person is an ordinary ordinary person, he is nobody (I don’t want to offend anyone) and his word is nothing, ”she says.

Before going to court, where she was taken into custody, the girl passed her exams ahead of schedule (before the trial, she was under house arrest). He does not look into the future yet, he tries to live for today.