St-Petersburg anarchists assert that charge of blowing up the "Neva Express" train is a provocation

 The arrest of Andrei Kalyonov and Denis Zelenyuk, members of the "Petersburg League of Anarchists," on suspicion of blowing up the "Neva Express" train is a deliberate provocation of special agencies, Alexander Maishev, one of the participants of St-Petersburg's movement of anarchists, said in his interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. In his opinion, Kalyonov and Zelenyuk got into the FSB's field of view several years ago because of their active civil activities:

"Andrei Kalyonov is a member of the "Memorial" National Information Centre (NIC) in St-Petersburg and a permanent participant of weekly pickets against the war in the Caucasus... He took part in the action against the G8 Summit in 2006, where he was exposed to preventive arrest. He was repeatedly detained with anti-war leaflets in hand."

Kalyonov and Zelenyuk were detained at Malaya Vishera railway station, when, under the version of the investigation, the young men came to the place of the train wreck to examine the territory. However, as the detainees' comrades are asserting, actually the young men, who were delegates of the St-Petersburg League of Anarchists, were going to Yaroslavl, to the 20th Congress of the Association of Anarchists' Movement.

"On August 16, Andrei Kalyonov's residence was searched, and nobody was present during this action. Nobody knows what was found there, but actually everything could be planted," Alexander Maishev says.

Making his comments on the version of the investigation about any links of the detained anarchists with Chechen Hasan Didigov who was detained on August 21 on suspicion of taking part in the act of terror, Mr Maishev has noted that none of the League members is familiar with the third suspect.

"Elections are forthcoming. Half a year before Yeltsin's resignation, in September 1999, explosions of houses began in Moscow, which had served an official pretext to start the second Chechen war and brought Putin to power on the wave of chauvinism. The same starts now," Alexander Maishev thinks.