July 2-4, 2018. Review of the hearing in the case of a Danish believer in Oryol

In court, the name of the Orthodox theologian Oleg Kurdyumov was again heard.

On July 2, 2018, the prosecutor partially read out procedural documents in open court, indicating that the conversation between Kurdyumov and Christensen in the Country Chicken café, which took place on May 16, 2017, was secretly recorded on a dictaphone. (Oleg Kurdyumov is a lecturer at Oryol State University, a graduate of the Department of Religious Studies and Theology, a specialist in the history of near-Orthodox heresies.) Lawyer Anton Bogdanov drew the court's attention to the fact that the printed transcript protocol made by the FSB officers sometimes distorts the meaning of what Christensen said during the conversation with Kurdyumov, and that listening to the audio recording will help to establish this fact.

After that, the court examined the audio recording of the conversation between these two people in a closed court session. (Behind closed doors of the courtroom, there was information about the motives of the young historian, who appeared next to Christensen precisely when the FSB was secretly recording video or audio. Only the prosecutors, lawyers, judge and the defendant who remained in the courtroom could hear the conversation between Christensen and Kurdyumov at a table in an ordinary café in the city of Orel, after which Christensen was arrested 9 days later. What are the questions that evening, May 16, 2017, worried the Orthodox theologian Kurdyumov? Was he interested in Bible teachings or was he trying to lead Christensen to topics of interest to FSB officers? It is hoped that the answers to these questions will be heard in the debate of the prosecution and defense, and possibly in the verdict of the court.)

On July 3, 2018, the public prosecutor, in open court, examined the documents contained in volumes 2 and 3 of the criminal case, from which it follows that the telephone conversations of Dennis Christensen and 4 other citizens were wiretapped, by decision of the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Orel, for six months. And Christensen's conversations continued to be listened to even after he was placed in a pre-trial detention center, until January 2018.

On July 3 and 4, 2018, the court session was again held behind closed doors, since this was related to listening to audio recordings of telephone conversations of the persons indicated in volumes 2 and 3 of the criminal case.

The next court hearing is scheduled for July 9, 2018.