Separatist of the Year: A man was detained in the Volgograd region for allegedly planning a coup and declaring the Kotelnikovsky District an independent republic.
Volgograd news agency "Height 102" publishes a video detention of a local resident. According to the agency, this is an FSB operational video filmed in Kotelnikovsky district, whose population is 37 thousand people.
The video shows security forces in camouflage run up A man standing in the courtyard of a residential building is tackled to the ground and then led away in handcuffs. The detainee, whose name has not been released, allegedly planned to declare an independent "Kotelnikovo Republic" with its own currency and government. and dig a tunnel from Bombay to London.
Volgograd Notepad пишетThe detainee is a 40-year-old unemployed man who regularly posted negative comments about the Russian authorities on various online resources and spoke of the need to transform the region into an independent state. The FSB Directorate for the Volgograd Region told the publication that a criminal case has been opened against him for publicly disseminating "fake news" about the Russian army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).
According to Bloknot, a resident of the Kotelnikovsky district has already been convicted of calling for the violation of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation and sentenced to community service.
Video: FSB

