Russia’s FSB knew very well that Rustem Asanov is not living in Crimea and their armed search of his mother’s home on 2 June 2020 had no purpose except to terrorize. A Rosgvardia truck, with a number of FSB officers and Rosgvardia fighters in full military gear turned up at the house in Belogorsk where 65-year-old Sheyde Asanova lives at around 8 a.m. They claimed to be looking for weapons, symbols of the Noman Çelebicihan (or Asker) Battalion or other documents linked with the illegal criminal charges that they have initiated against her son. As was to be expected, they found nothing.
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