Alexey Chirniy
Alexey Chirniy, born 1981, Occupied territory of Republic of Crimea. Charges: Article 205 (part unknown) applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Preparation for a terrorist attack); Article 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Preparation or attempt to commit a group terrorist attack); Article 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in a terrorist community); “Alexei Chirniy's case”. Sentence (April 21, 2015): seven years' imprisonment in a strict regime colony. Status: at large.
In brief
Occupied territory of Republic of Crimea · Simferopol · Teachers · Terrorism cases
Sentence
7 years
seven years' imprisonment in a strict regime colony
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 205 (part unknown) applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Preparation for a terrorist attack
- Article 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Preparation or attempt to commit a group terrorist attack
- Article 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in a terrorist community
- Article 222 part 3 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Attempted illicit trafficking in firearms or ammunition (by a group, using official position, or the Internet).
Full wording of the charges
Participated in two arson attacks in April 2014 in Crimea: the arson of the office of Russian Unity and the office of the Ukrainian Party of Regions, which was actually taken over by the local branch of United Russia at the time; planned to blow up the Lenin monument in Simferopol
Latest event
May 7, 2021 — imprisonment ends
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Persecution ends
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №5 (SIZO-5) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation for the Rostov Oblast
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 7 years
· Persecution begins
Alexei Chirniy's case
Criminal case
Alexei Chirniy's case
Thematic group: The case of Crimean terrorists
Details and sources
Full summary
He was detained on the night of 9 May 2014 on charges of involvement in the arson attacks on the office of the Russian Unity and the office of the Ukrainian Party of Regions in the Crimean capital. According to the investigation, he also planned to blow up the Lenin monument in Simferopol. These actions were qualified as terrorism or preparation for it, despite the fact that all of them took place at night, when the buildings were empty, there were no victims and casualties and knowingly should not have been.
Chirniy entered into a co-operation agreement with the investigation, which implies the refusal to examine evidence, pleaded guilty and testified against the other defendants in the case - Gennady Afanasiev, Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kolchenko, which largely formed the basis of their charges.
Later, when the Ukrainian consul was allowed to see him, Chirniy said that he had given this testimony under torture.
On 22 April 2015, he was sentenced to seven years in a strict regime colony.
For a long time Russian authorities recognised Chirniy as a citizen of Ukraine, as even before his arrest he had managed to write a renunciation of Russian citizenship (this was the procedure for residents of annexed Crimea who did not want to become citizens of the Russian Federation). However, three years after his arrest, in July 2017, the colony staff stated that the renunciation of Russian citizenship "was not found" and the Ukrainian citizenship of the convict would be considered invalid, after which representatives of the Ukrainian consulate were no longer allowed to visit him.
Chirniy was serving his sentence in a colony in the Magadan region, but in July 2016 it became known that he was taken to Moscow for a psychiatric examination, and in September 2016 he was transferred to the Rostov region. Since July 2017, he has been in one of the colonies there.
He was released on 7 May 2021.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Ukraine
Other people prosecuted under Article 205 (part unknown) applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.