MOSCOW, October 9 (RAPSI) – The Moscow City Court has upheld extended detention for infamous Russian nationalist Maxim Martsinkevich charged with robbery and hooliganism, RAPSI correspondent reports from the courtroom.
Earlier, the Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow extended detention of Martsinkevich until December 19. The case is being reviewed for the second time.

In May, the Moscow City Court overturned specific part of the defendant’s 10-year prison sentence concerning robbery and hooliganism and ordered review of the case. The court also mitigated sentence for three associates of Martsinkevich, who were also defendants in the case. Dmitry Sheldyashev and Alexander Shankin were sentenced to 5 years and 10 months in a penal colony while Roman Maksimov received 4 years and 10 months.

In June 2017, the Babushkinsky District Court found Restruct movement leader Martsinkevich guilty of inciting hatred and enmity, hooliganism, robbery and property destruction. Ten members of the movement were sentenced to prison terms varying from 3 to 10 years.

According to case documents, under pretense of drug interdiction, the group attacked people in 2013-2014 in Moscow using electro shockers, gas sprayers and metallic pipes, leaving several people traumatized and one person dead.

Martsinkevich, one of the more well-known Russia nationalists, has a history of clashes with the law. In 2014, he was sentenced to five years in prison for publishing extremist content on the Internet.

He has already been convicted of publishing online a video of staging an execution of a “Tajik drug dealer” and extremist statements. He has received 3.5 years in prison in two cases taken together.