Revolutionary Military Council (organization)

The Revolutionary Military Council (RVS) is the Russian left radical underground organization, which was created in 1997 in Moscow by Igor Gubkin, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Young Communist (born in 1964) and his deputy Sergei Maksimenko. The organization’s goal was proclaimed "the implementation of an armed uprising with the aim of overthrowing the bourgeois regime and establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat in the form of Soviet power ."

In 1996, Gubkin created a financial pyramid called MZHK, which for a contribution of $ 200 in the event of a communist victory promised an apartment. Gennady Zyuganov became the depositor of MZhK at number 500. The total revenue of the pyramid was $ 1.5 million. Funds collected by SJC were used to finance the Revolutionary Military Council

On April 1, 1997, a monument to Nicholas II was blown up by members of the PBC in the village of Taininskoye , near Moscow. After that, they called the FSB and announced that they were responsible for the explosion.

On July 6, 1997, the PBC members mined a monument to Peter I in the center of Moscow - two scuba divers with 5 kilograms of plastite and electric detonators moved an underwater torpedo-towing vehicle along the Moscow River to the monument, where they laid explosives in the second tier of the monument, connected the coil and pulled the wire under water on the opposite bank of the river. Then they called the FSB and announced an explosive device, after which it was neutralized.

On August 3, 1997, Igor Gubkin was detained by the FSB; later, members of the PBC Sergey Maksimenko, Vladimir Belashev, Valery Sklyar, Vladimir Radchenko and Yuri Vnuchkov were arrested.

November 12, 1997 "Revolutionary Military Council" mined a gas distribution station in Lyubertsy .

On July 30, 1999, the case of Gubkin, Maksimenko, Belashev, Sklyar, Radchenko and Vnuchkov was transferred to the Moscow City Court, which on October 12, 1999 sent him for further investigation. On January 10, 2000, the accused were released from custody.

After that, Gubkin moved to Vladivostok . There he was going to form a partisan detachment, by means of armed expropriations of state and private property, to raise funds for the publication of an underground communist newspaper and to agitate for the “Far Eastern Soviet Republic”. On May 15, 2001, he shot Boris Egorov, the manager of the Daltis company, from a sawn-off shotgun, who refused to give him money for the revolution. Then Gubkin returned to Moscow with a fake passport, where he was detained on July 29, 2001.

Maksimenko, Belashev, Sklyar, Radchenko and Vnuchkov were sentenced on April 19, 2002 by the Moscow City Court to imprisonment for a term of 4 to 11 years.

On June 14, 2005, the Lenin District Court of Vladivostok sentenced Gubkin to 14 years in prison for the murder of Yegorov.

On April 10, 2006, the Moscow City Court began hearings on Gubkin’s charges of terrorism, an attempt to forcibly seize power, fraud and organize a criminal community. In August 2006, the jury found Gubkin not guilty of organizing a criminal community and preparing for a violent seizure of power, but found him guilty of terrorism and fraud. He was sentenced to 19 years in prison (taking into account the previous term - 14 years). On December 21, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation reduced his sentence to 17 years, having removed from him charges of attempting to undermine the monument to Peter I in connection with a voluntary refusal to commit this crime (with the wording “lack of corpus delicti”). Also, charges of creating a criminal were dropped from Gubkin community for the purpose of violent seizure of power in the Russian Federation (Revolutionary Military Council) and attempted violent seizure of power in the Russian Federation with the wording “absence of a crime event”.

In 2003, sentenced to 11 years in prison, Belashev filed a lawsuit with the ECHR , accusing the Russian authorities of inhuman treatment, degrading his dignity, and violation of the right to a fair trial. In particular, Belashev claimed that during the preliminary investigation he was kept in a crowded cell, so that the prisoners had to sleep in turns. In addition, in his opinion, his rights were violated by a closed trial. The European Court admitted that Belashev’s rights were violated and ordered Russia to pay him 10 thousand euros for moral damage and 220 euros for legal costs. In February 2010, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on the basis of this decided to review the case of Belashev. On March 31, 2010, the Moscow City Judge Eduard Chuvashov suggested Belashev plead guilty and immediately be released due to the expiration of the statute of limitations . However, Belashev stated that he intends to defend his innocence and the proceedings were continued. On May 26, 2010, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation released Belashev on his own recognizance. On June 21, 2010 Belashev was sentenced to 9 years and six months in prison (in fact, he had already served three months more than this term).

According to the sociologist and left-wing publicist Alexander Tarasov , the organization has nothing to do with the left-wing movement: “None of those convicted in the“ RVS case ”was a leftist and is not. The leader of the PBC Igor Gubkin is a typical new Russian with a Komsomol (and probably gebist) past ” ^[1] .