Kynev’s lawyer said that the political scientist is in the medical unit of the SIZO
He is accused of drug trafficking on a large scale. Biryukov informed RBC about appealing this decision. Materials on the infliction of Kynev beatings are allocated to a separate production
Arrested on charges of attempted drug sales, political scientist Alexander Kynev (included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of foreign agents) is in the medical unit of SIZO-1 “Sailor’s Silence”. This was reported by his lawyer Mikhail Biryukov.
According to the lawyer, materials about causing Kynev bodily injuries during detention by unidentified persons were allocated to a separate proceeding. Information about this was not made public at the request of the political scientist, so as not to interfere with the conduct of operational verification activities, said Biryukov.
RBC sent a request to GUFSIN in Moscow.
Earlier, the lawyer told RBC that the defense of Kynev appealed the decision to detain him.
On September 25, the Perovsky Court of Moscow sent the political scientist to the SIZO for two months in a criminal case of attempted sale of drugs on a large scale (part 3 of Article 30 and part 4 of Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code). For the commission of this crime is punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
Kynev is a candidate of political sciences, a researcher of Russian elections and regional politics. In 1999, he was the chief expert on working with the regions of the central headquarters of the Yabloko association in the elections of the State Duma, ran for deputy of the Duma. In 2002, he was elected a member of the Central Council (CC) of the SLON party, as well as a member of the Bureau of the Central Council.
In 2006-2012, Kynev headed the analytical department of the association in defense of the rights of voters "Golos" (the all-Russian public movement "Golos" is included in the register of foreign agents, recognized as undesirable in Russia, the organization announced the termination of work). From 2012 to 2018 – expert of the Committee of Civil Initiatives, coordinator of the election monitoring project of the KGI. Since 2018, he has been cooperating with the Liberal Mission Foundation (in the spring of 2025, it was recognized as a foreign agent, but after a few months was excluded from the register), later became a member of the fund’s board.
The Justice Ministry added Kynev to the register of foreign agents in February this year. According to the agency, the reason was that Kynev, among other things, “spread false information” about the decisions of the public authorities of Russia and their policies, as well as about the electoral system of the country.
