Biography
After the raid of law enforcement officers in November 2020, Sergey Shatalov, who was undergoing treatment in Moscow, spent 2 nights in isolation and was placed under house arrest. The investigation considers as organizing extremist activity the fact that in 2019 he came to visit an acquaintance, who is also subject to criminal prosecution.
Sergey was born in September 1969 in Stavropol. His father died when the boy was 10 years old, and his mother continued to raise her son alone. In his youth he was fond of chess, played table tennis, volleyball, billiards.
Sergey studied at a nautical school, then served in the army. In the navy he was injured and subsequently disabled, so he again went to study - as a commodity specialist at the Cooperative College. Sergey often had to change his occupation: he worked in the field of trade, as a stage machinist in a theater, a parquet operator, a supplier, a courier.
Sergey met his future wife, Yelena, right after the army. In 1995 they got married. Yelena has several professions and different skills. She is ready to learn something new depending on the needs of the family and changes in life circumstances. She likes to play backgammon and billiards, is fond of preparing wedding decor. Sergey plays chess, backgammon and billiards in his free time, rides a bicycle.
The search, detention and house arrest radically changed the life of the spouses. Sergey had to interrupt the necessary treatment. Anxiety is added by the fact that because of the criminal case he cannot see his wife, communicate and take care of her.
Relatives are simultaneously outraged and confused, because they know the couple only from the good side. They are confident in the unfairness of the criminal prosecution and in the wrong application of such a serious article of the Criminal Code to civilians.