Danila Buzanov
Danila Buzanov, born 1995, Moscow. Charges: Article 236 part 1 applied with Article 33 part 4, Russian Criminal Code (Incitement to violate sanitary and epidemiological regulations (resulting in a mass illness or…); case “Sanitary business in Balakovo”, opened on October 13, 2021. Previously convicted under Article 282 part 2 item a, Russian Criminal Code. Status: not in Russia.
In brief
Moscow, Saratov Oblast · Balakovo, Moscow · Extremism cases, Cases related to mass actions
Sentence
1 year 6 months
One year six months' deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 282 part 2 item a, Russian Criminal Code — Incitement of hatred or enmity with the use of violence or the threat of violence
- Article 236 part 1 applied with Article 33 part 4, Russian Criminal Code — Incitement to violate sanitary and epidemiological regulations (resulting in a mass illness or posing such a threat)
Full wording of the charges
incited hatred towards a social group of Russian citizens supporting the position of the DPR and LPR with the use of violence
Latest event
October 13, 2021 — criminal case opened
Sanitary business in Balakovo
Timeline
· Criminal case opened
Sanitary business in Balakovo
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Imprisonment ends
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 1 year 6 months
· Persecution begins
Danila Buzanov's case
Criminal case
Danila Buzanov's case
Sanitary business in Balakovo
Other defendants in the case
- Vladimir Nechayev — Not in Russia
Thematic group: Palace case
Details and sources
Full 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.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Persecution episodes
- 2
Other people prosecuted under Article 236 part 1 applied with Article 33 part 4, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.