Name: Tsarev Denis Yuriyevich
Date of Birth: May 30, 1983
Current status: accused
Articles of Criminal Code of Russian Federation: 282.2 (1)
Time spent in prison: 1 day in a temporary detention facility

Biography

On July 16 and 17, 2019, mass searches were carried out in the homes of believers in several settlements of the Nizhny Novgorod region. A total of 35 searches were conducted, and at least 11 people are involved in the criminal case. One of them is Denis Tsarev. What do we know about him?

Denis was born in 1983 in Moscow. A year and a half later, the family was replenished with two twin boys. Denis grew up as an active and friendly child. Since childhood, he went in for sports, played football. The children lost their father when they were still very young.

After graduating from school, wanting to help his mother and brothers, Denis chose the profession of a cook - a business that was interesting to him and could bring the necessary income. The love of cooking, combined with the acquired skills, made it possible to find a job in Moscow restaurants. At the same time, Denis did not abandon sports. Recently he worked as an exterminator.

Since the early 2000s, Denis has been actively interested in the Bible. He was very impressed by the sincere love that reigns among those who live according to his commandments. He wanted to be like them. In 2008, he married Lyubov, with whom he shares a common hobby - learning the Uzbek language.

Later, the couple moved to Nizhny Novgorod, not expecting that a real hunt for Jehovah's Witnesses would unfold there.

Case History

In July 2019, Nizhny Novgorod security forces broke into 35 houses of peaceful believers with searches, several criminal cases were initiated, in particular against pensioner Galina Abrosimova, web designer Eduard Smirnov and cook Denis Tsarev. Oleg Makerov, senior investigator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Nizhny Novgorod region, accused them of organizing extremist activities. Tsarev spent 2 days in the temporary detention facility. The case of Tsarev and Smirnov was separated into separate proceedings from the case of Abrosimova.
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