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Danila Buzanov

Not in RussiaChecked October 18, 2026

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

Verdict March 17, 2016

No information about an appeal ruling.

Charges

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

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Timeline

  1. · Criminal case opened

    Sanitary business in Balakovo

  2. · Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list

  3. · Imprisonment ends

  4. · Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”

  5. · First-instance verdict

    guilty verdict · 1 year 6 months

  6. · Persecution begins

    Danila Buzanov's case

Criminal case

Danila Buzanov's case

There are no other defendants in this case in the database.

Sanitary business in Balakovo

Other defendants in the case

Thematic group: Palace case

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

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

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