The federal security service FSB accuses a total of 23 people of having been part of a terrorist organization and having intended to seize power with violence, according to information through Russian state media.
All are members of the Russian Anti-War Committee, an organization founded by the Russian regime critic and former oligarch Mikhail Chodorkovskij in connection with the large-scale outbreak of war in 2022. It attempts to organize democratically-minded exiled Russians in several countries, including Sweden, and has previously been banned in Russia.
FSB points to a foundational document that the committee's members adopted in 2023, which states that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is illegal and that Vladimir Putin's rule should be overthrown.
They also point to a decision in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe last week. Russia has been kicked out of the intergovernmental cooperation due to the war, but the assembly will instead engage in dialogue with a Russian delegation consisting of democratic exile opposition who are working for a change of regime in Russia.
This is described by FSB as an attempt to try to establish an alternative Russian authority apparatus in conspiracy with Western countries.
