On November 15 the case of the Fungus began to consider the merits of

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The court in Rostov-on-don, November 23, was to interrogate the citizen of the Russian Federation Tatyana Ershov, which, according to the prosecution, declined to attack Ukrainian Pavel Mushroom, but due to her illness in court the witness was made by her friend Maria Aristova, which testified in favor of the Ukrainian. It is reported by the “Caucasian knot”.

Aristova stated that the Mushroom and Ershova corresponded on the Internet and their conversations were mostly of a romantic nature, politics, they are not discussed. In addition, Ershov and the Fungus did not discuss plans of attack.

“The only negative point in communicating his girlfriend with a Mushroom Juristova called her the changed plans: to Dating with a Ukrainian girl wanted to go to University, and when introduced to the Fungus, expressed a desire to go to Ukraine”, – writes the edition.

The Prosecutor in the course of the meeting stated that Juristova changed her story, in 2017, she called her friend Ershov “the Ukrainian nationalist right-wing views, which heroes of Bandera and Shukhevych”. According to her, the Mushroom and Ershova agreed “on the basis of nationalism”, a joint understanding of the history of Ukraine as “occupation by the Russian Empire and the USSR” and “the opposition of the Ukrainian nation and the “Russian world”.

Juristova confirmed that the protocols of her interrogation from the latter, however, abandoned the characteristics of the brush. “No, I didn’t write it. I just know that she loved Ukraine and the Ukrainian language. I don’t know what is nationalism,” said the witness.

24 August 2017 Mushroom, traveled to Gomel (Belarus) to meet with a friend, kidnapped by the FSB of Russia. Two weeks on the exact location of the Ukrainians were not known anything. On 7 September the Consulate General of Ukraine in Rostov-on-don received a message from the FSB about the content of the Mushroom in a detention center in Krasnodar. In Russia, Ukrainians were accused of preparing a terrorist attack in a school in Sochi.

7 November, the Fungus extended the arrest in Russia until April 2019.

On 15 November, the business began to consider on the merits. At the meeting, the Fungus did not admit guilt and refused to testify.