FSB officers stopped the activities of AUE supporters in Tyva. “There are documented facts of the creation by its leaders of an organized criminal community, which controlled interregional channels of illicit drug trafficking, extorted money from representatives of business structures,” the special service said.

The international public movement “Prisoner Criminal Unity” (AUE) is recognized as extremist and banned on the territory of Russia by decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated August 17, 2020.