Savelev Egor Sergeevich

July 16, 2023 "The FSB reported that it prevented an attempt on the life of propagandist Margarita Simonyan and journalist Ksenia Sobchak." "In Moscow and the Ryazan Oblast, 'neo-Nazis from the Paragraph-88 group' were detained, who, acting on orders from the SBU, conducted reconnaissance on the addresses of work and residence of Simonyan and Sobchak. Law enforcement considers 18-year-old Mikhail Balashov to be the founder of "Paragraph 88. On the evening of Saturday, July 15, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested seven detainees. However, only under the article on hooliganism. In the court's press release about the arrest of the men who "committed attacks on foreign citizens out of national hatred, with particular cynicism and audacity, the attempted attack was not even mentioned." "On September 7, Savelyev and Balashov were charged with preparing to kill Simonyan, attacks on migrants, and weapons possession. NS/WP group associates reported torture of detainees. The investigation claims that Balashov was supposed to receive $50 thousand for the assassination attempt on Simonyan. He was allegedly detained during an attempt to purchase an AK-47 assault rifle. At the beginning of July 2024, it became known that three new suspects appeared in the case - these are a communications college student Andrey Detkovsky, a fitter Sergey Korolenkov and an eighth grade student Pavel R., all of them were detained on May 7 in a case of hooliganism. An eighth-grader and a student are charged under the article on preparing a terrorist attack. All three were chosen a measure of restraint in the form of a ban on certain actions - in particular, going out of the house at night. Defendants in the case were charged with participation in a terrorist organization. The investigation believes that the detainees are linked to the activities of "Paragraph-88" - an ultra-right group that is believed to have been preparing assassination attempts on Simonyan and Sobchak. Charges of involvement in the far-right group "Paragraph 88" were brought against 16-year-old Muscovite Alexandra Filimonova on June 3, 2024. According to the investigation, the far-right used the girl as 'bait' to lure their victims. 14-year-old girl met men 'including non-Russian nationality' on Telegram. Under the pretext of a meeting, she lured men into Bitsevsky Forest, where other members of the group attacked them. As a preventive measure, she was assigned a ban on certain actions.