Danila Buzanov
- Criminal Code
- Article 236 part 1 applied with Article 33 part 4, Russian Criminal CodeArticle 282 part 2 item a, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Extremism casesCases related to mass actions
- Verdict
- Imprisonment (general regime)
- Sentence
- 1 year 6 months
- Date of verdict
- 2016-03-17
- Region
- MoscowSaratov Oblast
- City
- Balakovo, Moscow
- Address for letters
- 127081, г. Москва, ул. Вилюйская, д. 4, ФКУ СИЗО-4 ГУФСИН России по г. Москве ("Медведь"), Бузанов Данила Александрович, 1995 г.р.
Case summary
He was charged with incitement to hatred because of an argument and a fight with an acquaintance near a tent with DPR and LPR paraphernalia. On 4 December 2015 an interrogation took place, on 21 December Buzanov was charged, confronted and introduced to the testimony of witnesses, which, according to him, were almost identical. In court, the witnesses testified that Buzanov shouted pro-Ukrainian phrases directed against supporters of the DPR and LPR (Buzanov himself denies this). On 18 March 2016 Buzanov was sentenced to one and a half years in a penal colony. At the end of the sentence and immediately after his release, Buzanov was threatened by employees of the Centre for Countering Extremism. Upon his return home, he was placed under administrative supervision.
In October 2021, unknown persons came to Buzanov's workplace in his absence and asked where he was. Buzanov suspected that they were law enforcers. Later it became known that he was mentioned during the interrogation of another defendant in the case of incitement to violate sanitary and epidemiological rules in Balakovo, Vladimir Nechaev: the investigator asked Nechaev to tell Buzanov to return from Moscow to the Saratov region. Buzanov left Russia and was put on a wanted list.
Others charged under Article 236 part 1 applied with Article 33 part 4, Russian Criminal Code
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