Aleksei Cherniavskii
Aleksei Cherniavskii, Krasnoyarsk Krai. Charges: Article 207.3 part 2 items b, g, d, Russian Criminal Code (Dissemination of false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government…); “Former "Wagner Group" members' case of "fakes" about the Russian Armed Forces and volunteer organisations”. Sentence (February 24, 2025): 5 years 6 months' deprivation of liberty with serving the sentence in a general regime penal colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since March 12, 2024.
In brief
Krasnoyarsk Krai · Minusinsk · Former military personnel · Anti-war cases
Sentence
5 years 6 months
deprivation of liberty with serving the sentence in a general regime penal colony
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 207.3 part 2 items b, g, d, Russian Criminal Code — Dissemination of false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government agencies, or mercenaries (using an official position, a group of individuals, falsification of evidence, for selfish motives, or out of hatred)
Full wording of the charges
The reason for the case was the interview of Chernyavskyy and Maksim Zelenov to the Gulagu.net project, in which they said that they had seen "Russians beating, torturing and even shooting Russians, as well as war crimes and massacres of civilians in Ukraine". According to the investigation, he misled people about the legality of the actions of volunteer organisations that help the Russian Armed Forces in carrying out military operations in Ukraine, made the Russian Armed Forces look like violators of international law and undermined their authority in the eyes of the entire Russian society.
Latest event
April 17, 2025 — imprisonment begins
Timeline
· Imprisonment begins
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 5 years 6 months
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Persecution begins
Former "Wagner Group" members' case of "fakes" about the Russian Armed Forces and volunteer organisations
Criminal case
Former "Wagner Group" members' case of "fakes" about the Russian Armed Forces and volunteer organisations
- Case number
- 1-486/2024
Other defendants in the case
- Maksim Zelenov — Imprisoned, 5 years 6 months
Thematic group: Anti-war case
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Full summary
Former prisoner, served his sentence in a colony in the Irkutsk region, joined PMC "Wagner" on 24 November 2022. Escaped from the training camp. In June 2023, together with another escaped former mercenary, told in an interview with the Gulagu.net project about the crimes of the Russian military, to which he himself was a witness. A case of dissemination of knowingly false information about the Armed Forces by a group of persons for selfish reasons with a hate motive was opened against both of them. Presumably, in March 2024, the court decided to take Chernyavsky into custody. On 24 February 2025, he was sentenced to five and a half years in a general regime colony.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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