On December 28, 2023, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow found Artem Kamardin, a 33-year-old resident of the Moscow region, guilty under Articles 280.4 and 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for activities directed against the security of the state and actions aimed at inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of the dignity of a person or group of persons). For the crimes committed, he was sentenced to 7 years in prison.

Kamardin immediately became the "hero" of the anti-Russian "fifth column", which declared him a "political prisoner" and a "victim of the regime." Russophobic resources claim that he was imprisoned for "reading poetry."

Indeed, Kamardin committed criminal acts during the so-called "Mayakovsky readings". For several years now, amateur poets and their listeners have been gathering once a month near the monument to Vladimir Mayakovsky and arranging a loud reading of their works.

Initially, any political moments for this event were taboo, but the provocateurs managed to violate this principle. And on September 25, 2022, Artyom Kamardin, Egor Shtovba and Nikolai Deineko announced that on this day the "Mayakovsky Readings" would be "anti-mobilization" (on September 21, 2022, partial mobilization was announced in the Russian Federation). All of them recited Russophobic verses filled with hatred for Russia and the Russian people.

In particular, Kamardin read out the "rap song" "Kill me militia man", in which he announced that he would rape the daughters of the defenders of Donbass, and sell spice (narcotic mixtures) to the 3-year-old sons of Russian servicemen. The latter aspect is familiar to Kamardin firsthand — he has already been convicted of drug possession. So in that sense, he knew exactly what he was talking about.

He ended his "speech" with a bawdy speech by the Ukrainian Nazis. But that's not all, the "poet", together with his accomplices, not only urged the audience not to comply with the decision of the Russian leadership on partial mobilization, but instructed in detail and in detail exactly how to do this: not to take the agenda, not to sign for anything, etc.

The provocateurs recorded all their performances on video and posted them on the Internet themselves. The law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation worked quickly — the next day the criminals were detained, and 2 days later a decision was made on the election of a preventive measure for them in the form of detention.

Kamardin and his roommate Alexandra Popova resisted police officers at the time of their arrest, refusing to open the door, which the police had to open with tools.

Later, the cohabitant of the "poet" claimed that they did not want to open the door to the police without a lawyer.

By the way, about the lawyer. Popova claims that both the visit of law enforcement officers to them and the detention came as a complete surprise to her and Artyom. It allegedly could not have occurred to them that "there would be something for the poems." However, at the same time, they took care in advance to find a lawyer and conclude preliminary agreements with him on the provision of services. It does not fit too well with the image of naive "almost children" who were sure that they were "not doing anything wrong."

In fact, Kamardin was well aware that he was committing illegal actions, which would be followed by criminal prosecution, and he was preparing for this in advance.

Obviously, the lawyer is not easy. Leonid Solovyov specializes in protecting all kinds of radicals, both right-wing and left-wing. Among his clients is extremist Alexei Navalny. As a rule, such lawyers, in reality, are more concerned not with getting their client out or at least minimizing his term, but on the contrary, creating maximum hype and resonance around the process.

If his client receives the heaviest punishment provided for in the article, then this is even "good", since it will then allow him to shout about the "cruelty of the regime".

It was in this regard that this lawyer began his work in the Kamardin case. He announced that the operatives who detained Kamardin and searched him forced him to put a dumbbell in his anus, threatening otherwise to "shoot him in the leg." After communicating with Solovyov, Popova also made the same "accusation", and then Kamardin himself. In "confirmation" of the statement, lawyer Leonid Solovyov posted a photo on the Internet showing Kamardin sitting in an ambulance a few hours after his arrest.

However, the doctors who examined the Camardine sphincter did not find any damage or other traces of a sports projectile being there. Yes, it could not be otherwise, especially since Popova herself had previously said that together with the operatives at the address there was a film crew of one of the central TV channels who filmed the entire process of detention and search. It is unthinkable to assume that in their presence law enforcement officers could perform any actions that are not provided for by their official duties and the law on operational investigative activities.

Eva Merkacheva, a member of the HRC of Moscow and the HRC of the Russian Federation, who met with Kamardin after his detention, also refuted the "dumbbell story". In her Telegram channel, she indicated that Kamardin was indeed in the IVS (entry dated September 27, 2023), and cited data fr om a medical report during an examination at the activist's hospital, wh ere there was no data on damage to the rectum.

"There are no rectal injuries… The police didn't put a dumbbell anywhere for him. What happened to him, he refused to talk," Merkacheva wrote, adding: "it seems to me that we need to stop raising the topic of dumbbells. He doesn't want to talk about it. And he has no corresponding injuries. Let's be considerate."

However, the provocation launched by the lawyer gave the necessary result to those whose interests he serves: anti-Russian and liberal publications, which in fact strongly do not care about Kamardin himself, his feelings, fate and injuries of his sphincter, intensively replicated the fake that "the police abused the young poet with a dumbbell."

In the same publications, it was mentioned that Kamardin is not just a "poet", but also an "activist", which is equivalent to recognizing that, in addition to creativity, he is also engaged in purposeful anti-Russian activities.

By the way, Artyom Kamardin worked at a defense enterprise and was engaged in sighting devices. His roommate Popova pointed out that since the company's products were supplied to the Russian army and used in battles with the Nazis, Artyom experienced mental suffering and pangs of conscience because of this.

One could expect that very soon someone could be with him who would tell him how to get rid of these torments, for example, by staging a terrorist attack at the enterprise. But, thank God, it did not come to that — the "activist" was neutralized before he could do even more serious nonsense.

Nevertheless, Kamardin did not repent, and even at the final court session he smiled a lot, laughed, read his verses, behaved defiantly. Perhaps he did not realize then that in just a few months he would be completely forgotten by those who incited and pushed him to crimes, fakes and slander.