According to the ITAR-TASS news agency , the prosecution stated that Khabarov 's group planned to launch an operation codenamed “ Dawn ” to overthrow official authorities in the region . Many prominent figures in Russian politics expressed outrage about Khabarov 's imprisonment . Among them are individuals with diametrically opposed political views such as the presidential candidates Leonid Ivashov and Gennady Zyuganov , as well as other political figures , such as Andrey Illarionov , Andrey Savelyev , Maxim Shevchenko , Alexey Dymovsky , Maxim Kalashnikov , Irek Murtazin , Mikhail Delyagin , Ashot Egiazaryan , Aleksandr Kharchikov , Dmitry Puchkov , '' et al. '' They said that the accusations do not hold water , pointing to the ridiculousness of the collected “ evidence ” against Khabarov . Khabarov 's colleague , Col. Vladislav Zyomkovsky , said during an interview with '' PublicPost '' , that officially announced denunciation of a failed masterplan doesn ′ t stand up to critical examination , and if examined , the argument simply falls to the ground . In his opinion , a brilliant military strategist such as Khabarov , would never develop such an obvious plan . To refute the official version of the failed plot , Zyomkovsky cited one paragraph from Khabarov 's bill of indictment , which states that Khabarov and his alleged accomplices planned to switch off the entire region 's electrical grid , and thus create panic and civil disorder . In his opinion , this passage was copypasted from an indictment of the criminal trials of the 1930s , when such an event would really have spread chaos . But in the 2000s in Russia , electrical outages happened on a daily basis , were routine and a quite common occurrence
criminal trials of the 1930s
Great Purge
Leonid Khabarov