Yuliy Boyarshinov

Boyarshinov was detained on 21 January 2018, apparently by chance. They found with him 400 grams of smoky powder, a relatively weak explosive used for making fireworks, as well as by hunters and amateur shooters. Officers from Police Department 53 beat the detainee because he refused to communicate with them. Two days later Boyarshinov was charged only with illegal possession of explosives (part 1 of article 222.1 of the Criminal Code), and Primorsky District Court arrested him for 30 days.

FSB officers started to visit Boyarshinov in the pre-trial detention centre. They threatened to worsen the conditions of his detention if he did not "talk" and called the names of the "Network" case defendants from Penza. Yuli refused to communicate. As a result, he was transferred from the pre-trial detention centre "Kresty-2" to the pre-trial detention centre "Gorelovo" in a 115-bed cell, where 150 people accused of murder, rape and robbery are held. On 11 April 2018, he was charged with participation in the terrorist community "Network" (part 2 of article 205.4 of the Criminal Code).

On 20 March 2019, Boyarshinov announced that he was ready to plead guilty and was going to ask the court to consider his case under a special procedure, i.e. without examining the evidence.

On 22 June 2020, he was sentenced to five and a half years in a general regime colony. On 29 April 2021, the court of appeal reduced the sentence to five years and three months.

Boyarshinov was assigned eight years of administrative supervision. On 21 April 2023, he was released and left Russia on 28 April.