Sergei Udaltsov: "I'm not going anywhere!"

In the summer of 2014, the Moscow City Court was charged with the leader of the opposition party "Left Front" Sergei Udaltsov and his companion Leonid Razvozzhayev. The oppositionists were accused as organizers of the May 2012 riots on Bolotnaya Square, as well as the failed anti-government demonstrations in several Russian cities. Despite the fact that Sergei Udaltsov and his associates denied their guilt, they were sentenced to 4.5 years in prison. By a decision of the Supreme Court, the verdict was upheld.

Who is Sergey Udaltsov? Position

One of the most active leftist politicians in Russia, an implacable oppositionist, leader of the movement "Vanguard of the Red Youth", leader of the Left Front, Sergei Udaltsov has consistently defended the idea of building socialism in Russia. The only acceptable way to implement this idea is to "democratize the bourgeois revolution." In the development of modern computer technologies, the oppositionist sees a means of creating "direct democracy," which should replace the parliamentary one, which is currently experiencing an obvious crisis. The main enemy of the country politician considers plutocracy, in which state power belongs to the oligarchs. Sergei Udaltsov considers the renewal of the left party, the unification of the forces of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and "Fair Russia" under its banners, 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 declared support for the annexation of Crimea to Russia and the idea of creating Novorossia.

About biography

Sergei Udaltsov (real name - Tyutyukin) was born in 1977 in Moscow to a well-known family of Soviet intellectuals. His father is Professor S. Tyutyukin. The politician took the surname of his mother, whose genus is famous for the work of outstanding people: Uncle Alexander Udaltsov, the Russian ambassador in Latvia in 1997-2001; and great-grandfather, Ivan Udaltsov, former rector of Moscow State University, first director of MGIMO.

Graduated from the Moscow State Transport Academy. By education a lawyer.

The meaning of life is social and political activity, struggle with the system.

The politician is married, there are two sons.

Social and political activity

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

In 1999, after graduation, as a lawyer, he co-operates with the Glasnost newspaper, from the Stalinist block is running for the State Duma. The list does not manage to pass the 5% barrier.

In 2005 he was the initiator and participant of the organization "Left Front".

In 2007, he is one of the co-founders of the Council of Initiative Groups, which unites a large number of organizations. After a while, the organization is transformed into the Moscow City Council, which deals with 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, Udaltsov is one of the co-chairmen of the Organizing Committee of the movement "The Russian United Labor Front."

In 2012, in the presidential election, he supports the candidacy of G. Zyuganov. Journalists propose to him the successor of the leader of the Communist Party.

Detentions and arrests

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

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

The words of the politician, uttered by him in March 2012 on Pushkin Square, were symbolic. Sergei refused to stop the protest against the presidential election, saying that he would not go anywhere, "until Putin leaves."

Where is Udaltsov now?

Sergei Udaltsov, who is currently serving time in the Tambov region (the establishment of IR-3, the village of Zeleny, Rasskazovsky district), again starving. The oppositionist protests against putting him in the SHIZO.

According to his wife, Anastasia Udaltsova, the agency "Interfax", the convict did not file grounds for such punishment. Sending to the punishment cell, as well as a number of minor penalties received by Udaltsov in recent years, the woman considers intentional quibbles aimed at preventing the application for parole.

Sergei Udaltsov, whose verdict was issued on July 24, 2014, has the right to apply for UDO from May 2015. In August 2017, the term of his imprisonment expires.

Human Rights Center "Memorial" Udaltsov recognized as a political prisoner.

Wife Sergei Udaltsova Anastasia reported in social networks about the plight in which she lives with children after her husband's imprisonment. The woman accuses public organizations of the fact that she and her sons were not provided with the promised assistance.