13:43, 12 August 2025

Serenko became a defendant in the fourth criminal case

A slander case is being investigated against political scientist and former Volgograd City Duma deputy Mikhail Serenko, against whom cases of public justification of Nazism, extortion, and distribution of pornography were previously brought.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, political scientist and former Volgograd City Duma deputy Mikhail Serenko was detained on July 22 in a case of public justification of Nazism and extortion. On July 24, the court arrested him until September 18. Serenko was never an oppositionist and did not criticize the government, the Volgograd journalist pointed out. After his arrest, the Volgograd Regional Duma deputy wrote a statement against Serenko, accusing him of slander, and the military considered one of the publications in the Telegram channel, which the investigation names Serenko as the author, to be discrediting the armed forces. The investigation opened a case against Serenko for distributing pornography.

The investigation believes that the administrator and author of the "Freedom Island" channel published materials with incriminating information about a Volgograd resident and demanded money from him "to stop distributing defamatory publications." The detainee is charged with publicly justifying Nazism in connection with publications from March 2025. A psychological and linguistic examination concluded that the texts contain "a set of signs of rehabilitation of Nazism, including in the form of denial of the facts established by the verdict of the International Military Tribunal."

A new criminal case has been opened against the administrator of an Internet channel accused of extortion, public justification of Nazism and illegal public display of pornographic materials, the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Volgograd Region reported today.

According to investigators, in April 2025, Serenko met a local resident, to whom he proposed a romantic relationship, but was refused. In July 2025, the suspect spread false information about her boyfriend on the Internet about the latter committing a crime against the inviolability and sexual freedom of the individual. Another criminal case has been opened under the article on slander (part 5 of article 128.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) / All criminal cases have been combined into one proceeding.

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Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/413757