Sergey Ud altsov: "I'm not going anywhere!"

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:54

In the summer of 2014, the Moscow City Court indicted the leader of the Left Front opposition party Sergei Ud altsov and his associate Leonid Razvozzhaev. The oppositionists were accused of being the organizers of the riots that took place in May 2012 on Bolotnaya Square, as well as the failed anti-government demonstrations in a number of Russian cities. Despite the fact that Sergei Ud altsov and his colleague denied their guilt, they were sentenced by the court to 4.5 years in prison. The decision of the Supreme Court upheld the verdict.

Who is Sergey Ud altsov? Position

One of the most active left-wing politicians in Russia, an implacable opposition leader, leader of the Red Youth Vanguard movement, leader of the Left Front, Sergei Ud altsov consistently defends the idea of building socialism in Russia. He considers the “democratization of the bourgeois revolution” to be the only acceptable method for implementing this idea. The oppositionist sees in the development of modern computer technologies a means of creating "direct democracy", which should replaceparliamentary, which is currently experiencing an obvious crisis. The politician considers the main enemy of the country to be plutocracy, in which state power belongs to the oligarchs. Sergei Ud altsov considers the renewal of the Left Party, the unification of the forces of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and A Just Russia under its banner, a necessary step towards strengthening the struggle for the democratization of society.

Despite positioning himself as a consistent fighter against the Putin regime, the revolutionary expressed support for the annexation of Crimea to Russia and the idea of creating Novorossiya.

About biography

Sergey Ud altsov (real name - Tyutyukin) was born in 1977 in Moscow into a well-known family of Soviet intellectuals. His father is Professor S. Tyutyukin. The politician took the surname of his mother, whose family is famous for the activities of prominent people: the uncle of the politician Alexander Ud altsov was the Russian ambassador to Latvia in 1997-2001, and his great-grandfather, Ivan Ud altsov, in the past was the rector of Moscow State University, the first director of MGIMO.

Graduated from the Moscow State Transport Academy. Trained as a lawyer.

The meaning of life is social and political activity, the fight against the system.

The politician is married and has two sons.

Public and political activities

Since 1998 - the organizer and leader of the "Vanguard of the Red Youth" (an offshoot of V. Antipov's party "Working Russia").

In 1999, after graduating, he collaborated as a lawyer with the Glasnost newspaper, and ran for the State Duma from the Stalin Block. The list fails to pass the 5% barrier.

BIn 2005, he was the initiator and participant of the Left Front organization.

In 2007, he was one of the co-founders of the Council of Initiative Groups, which unites a large number of organizations. After some time, the organization will be transformed into the Moscow Council, which is engaged in the social protection of Muscovites.

In 2008, he was elected to the Council and the Executive Committee of the Left Front, being a deputy of the National Assembly of the Russian Federation, he headed the committee for interaction with protest groups.

Since 2009, Ud altsov has been one of the co-chairs of the Organizing Committee of the Russian United Labor Front movement.

In the 2012 presidential elections, he supports the candidacy of G. Zyuganov. Journalists predict him as the successor to the leader of the Communist Party.

Detentions and arrests

According to the politician, the number of his detentions and arrests during rallies and demonstrations already exceeds a hundred. Many times he had to defend the right to fight for the truth with the help of a hunger strike, including dry, undermining he alth, but effective as an argument in a dispute with the system.

Arrests, detentions, clashes and fights with the police, searches, slander (accusations of possession of weapons and drugs, bribery - participation in an allegedly paid rally, beating a girl during a demonstration) - these are the everyday life of a revolutionary.

The words of the politician, uttered by him in March 2012 on Pushkinskaya Square, sounded symbolic. Sergei refused to stop the protest against the presidential elections that had taken place, saying that he was nowherewill leave “until Putin leaves.”

Where is Ud altsov now?

Sergey Ud altsov, who is currently serving a term in the Tambov region (institution IK-3, Zeleny village, Rasskazovsky district), is again on hunger strike. The oppositionist protests against placing him in a punishment cell.

According to his wife, Anastasia Ud altsova, to the Interfax agency, the convict did not file any grounds for such a pen alty. Sending to a punishment cell, as well as a number of small pen alties received by Ud altsov recently, the woman considers deliberate nit-picking, aimed at preventing the application for parole.

Sergey Ud altsov, who was sentenced on July 24, 2014, has the right to apply for parole since May 2015. In August 2017, his sentence expires.

Memorial Human Rights Center recognized Ud altsov as a political prisoner.

Sergey Ud altsov's wife Anastasia reported on social networks about the plight she and her children are in after her husband's imprisonment. The woman accuses public organizations of not receiving the promised assistance to her and her sons.