"At least before, I understood the actions I was being persecuted for": Two new criminal cases have been opened against the former head of Navalny's Cheboksary headquarters.

On my Instagram account Semyon Kochkin He noted that he is accused of “participating in an extremist community” and “failure to fulfill the duties of a foreign agent.”

"Who would have thought that our small 'Angry Chuvashia' collective would attract so much attention from colonels and lieutenant colonels from the FSB and Center E," writes Kochkin. "Before, I at least understood the actions I was being persecuted for. For example, when I demanded that officials' children be sent to the SVO, I discredited the army. When I shared the story of the Cheboksary students, I distributed banned symbols. But now the randomizer is at work. The main goal of all these colonels and lieutenant colonels is to intimidate us and you. Even if they open a hundred more criminal cases against me, I'll still continue my work."

In March 2023, a case was opened against Kochkin for "discrediting the army" due to anti-war publications in "Angry Chuvashia." In September of that year, he was placed on the wanted list, and in November, a case was opened against him for "repeated propaganda of prohibited symbols" due to posts featuring the white-blue-white flag, which Russian authorities consider the symbol of the "Freedom of Russia" Legion.

Semyon himself lives outside of Russia. This doesn't stop security forces from taking advantage of his sister—in early July, Alexandra Kochkina A search was conducted in connection with a new case against her brother. The girl was then interrogated. Center "E" officers also questioned Alexandra about her trip to visit her brother in February 2023.