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Political activity

Since 2009, Andrei Rudomakha is a member of the political "Yabloko" Party and a member of the faction of the "Green Russia".

Since 2010, he participates in the activities of the Krasnodar Regional Branch of the "Yabloko" Party. Andrei Rudomakha is a member of the Federal Bureau of party faction "Green Russia".

Since May 2011, Andrei Rudomakha is Deputy Chairman of the Krasnodar Regional Branch of the "Yabloko" Party in the Krasnodar Territory. During the elections to the State Duma held in 2011, he headed the regional list of candidates from the "Yabloko" Party of the Krasnodar Territory.

In 2012, Andrei Rudomakha headed the list of candidates at the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Territory of the electoral association "Yabloko"-United Democrats".

Prosecution

On October 31, 2013, in the Khosta District of Sochi, Andrei Rudomakha was detained by staff members of the patrol-and-post service (known as PPS) regiment because of failure to come to investigator concerning the criminal case on defamation of a judge. Several hours later, he was released. The court pronounced the pre-trial restriction measure against Andrei Rudomakha in the form of recognizance not to leave.

On November 13, 2013, Sergey Mitrokhin, the leader of the "Yabloko" Party, acknowledged to be the author of the phrase, which resulted in the criminal case against Andrei Rudomakha under Article 298.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Defamation of a judge".

In October 2012, the website of the "Yabloko" Party published the press release, highlighting the unlawful arrest of A. Mandrigelya, a party member, including the following phrase: "'Elena Zolotukhina is well-known as a judge of lawlessness, who willingly fulfils orders of the authorities for knowingly unjust decisions. The verdict against A. Mandrigelya confirms the information,' he notes."

Investigators treated the word "he" as the one referring to Andrei Rudomakha, who was mentioned in the text earlier.

On November 25, 2013, Andrei Rudomakha, a coordinator of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", was invited by Alexei Pshenichnikov, the investigator of the Investigating Division for the Western District of the city of Krasnodar of the Investigating Department of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for the Krasnodar Territory. The website of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" reports that the investigator has handed in to Andrei Rudomakha a new resolution on the pre-trial restriction measure against him in the form of recognizance not to leave and appropriate behaviour.

Biography and social activities

In 1996, Suren Gazaryan graduated from the Kuban University (specialization "Biology"), and in 2001, he completed his postgraduate studies at the Institute of Ecology and Evolution named after A. N. Severtsov of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), where he defended his thesis.

In the period from 2004 till 2012, Suren Gazaryan worked at the Institute of Ecology of Mountain Territories of the Kabardino-Balkarian Scientific Centre of the RAS. More than 60 of his scientific papers were published.

Since 1999, Suren Gazaryan is engaged in ecological activities. In 2004, he became a member of the public organization "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", and since 2007, he is a member of its Board. He took an active part in the campaigns against the construction of Olympic facilities in Sochi and against the construction of roads to residences of the Presidential Administration in the Caucasian reserve and the reserve of "Bolshoi Utrish".

Suren Gazaryan writes blogs in "Live Journal" (gazaryan-suren, with 1500 subscribers) and in "Twitter" (Suren_Gazaryan, with 8000 subscribers).

Prosecutions

Criminal case on fence of "Governor Tkachov's summer cottage"

On November 13, 2011, a group of activists, including Suren Gazaryan, conducted an environmental inspection of the territory of the state-owned forest fund, adjacent to the alleged summer cottage of Alexander Tkachov, Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, located not far from the village of Divnomorsky.

The activists claim that to enter the territory of the forest fund, which is to be open to the public by law, they dismantled one of the sections of the fence constructed around the territory that included the land plots of Governor Tkachov and citizens Storozenko and Krivneva and about seven hectares of state-owned forest fund, access to which should be open to all citizens of Russia in accordance with the Forest Code. During the inspection, the ecologists revealed that during the construction of the fence, builders cut down dozens of trees, including Pitsynda pine, a plant listed in the Red Book of Russia.

On November 21, 2011, the criminal case was instituted on the fact of dismantlement of the fence under Part 1 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (intentional destruction or damage of property, if these acts have caused significant damage).

On March 1, 2012, officials from the Investigating Division of the Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the Tuapse District informed Suren Gazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko that they had been involved in the criminal case as suspects.

In February 2012, at the prosecutors' request, the case was reclassified to a heavier Part of the same Article (same acts committed out of hooligan motives, by arson, explosion or other generally dangerous method or resulted in death of a person or other serious consequences). According to investigators, the actions of Suren Gazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko "inflicted damage to the company 'Kapitel-2' amounting to about 119,000 roubles."

On March 13, 2012, Suren Gazaryan and his advocate Viktor Dutlov were detained in the territory of the forest fund when they were collecting evidence in the case, near the so-called "Governor Tkachov's summer cottage of " in Blue Bay. On March 14, the court found them guilty under Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation "disobedience to lawful order of a policeman" and sentenced them to 10 days of administrative arrest.

On April 9, 2012, Suren Gazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko were charged with inflicting damage to the fence near the object, which the ecologists believe to be the summer cottage of Alexander Tkachov, Governor of the Krasnodar Territory.

On May 15, the Tuapse court started the trial against Suren Gazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko in the case of inflicting damage to the fence near the forest fund not far from the "Governor Tkachov's summer cottage."

On June 20, 2012, the Tuapse District Court found Suren Gazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko guilty and sentenced them to three years of conditional imprisonment with a probation period of two years.

On July 2, the defence of Suren Gazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko filed an appeal against the verdict of the Tuapse District Court. On August 8, the Court of Appeal of the Krasnodar Territory upheld the decision of the Tuapse District Court.

Criminal case on attack on guard of "Putin's summer cottage"

In late August 2012, the criminal case was instituted against Suren Gazaryan on suspicion of threatening to murder a guard of the "Putin's summer cottage".

On December 15, 2012, Suren Gazaryan claimed being put on the federal wanted list at the request of an investigator from Gelendzhik.

In late December 2012, Suren Gazaryan left Russia, since he feared for a verdict of guilty and appealed to the Estonian authorities for political asylum. 

On June 11, 2013, the Estonian authorities granted the motion filed by Suren Gazaryan.