14:54, 24 July 2025

Volgograd political scientist arrested for two months

Former Volgograd City Duma deputy, political scientist Mikhail Serenko has been arrested until September 18 in a case of rehabilitation of Nazism and extortion. The selection of a preventive measure was held behind closed doors.

As "Caucasian Knot" wrote, political scientist, former Volgograd City Duma deputy Mikhail Serenko was arrested in a case of public justification of Nazism and extortion.

The investigation believes that in August-September 2024, the channel's administrator and author published material with incriminating information about a Volgograd resident, after which he demanded 300 thousand rubles from the man "to stop distributing defamatory publications." The victim refused to pay. Posts with information defamatory of the victim were published in the channel from September 2024 to February 2025, after which the man received another call with an offer to pay to stop the publications, but this time 350 thousand rubles, according to a message on the website of the regional Investigative Committee. The detainee is charged with public justification of Nazism in connection with publications posted online in March 2025. A psychological and linguistic examination concluded that the texts contain "a combination of signs of rehabilitation of Nazism, including in the form of denial of the facts established by the verdict of the International Military Tribunal."

The Central District Court chose a preventive measure in the form of detention for the former head of the Traktorozavodsky District and deputy of the Volgograd City Duma, journalist and political scientist Mikhail Serenko. He will spend the next two months in a pre-trial detention center. Mikhail Serenko has been arrested until September 18, V1 reported today.

The hearing to choose a preventive measure was held behind closed doors. Serenko categorically denied his involvement in the Telegram channel "Freedom Island", writes "Height 102".

"Caucasian Knot" also wrote that in June 2023, security forces in Volgograd searched Mikhail Serenko's apartment, after which he was interrogated as a witness in the criminal case of the armed rebellion of Yevgeny Prigozhin.

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