October 20, 2026, 3:33 PMRSSRU

Vladislav Chistov

Being clarifiedChecked October 18, 2026

Vladislav Chistov is listed as imprisoned, but other details in the same record do not agree:

  • the 1 year 6 months term (verdict of December 6, 2024), counted from January 1, 2025 without credit for time served, ended on June 30, 2026.

Vladislav Chistov, born 1959, Tver Oblast. Charges: Article 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Public calls for extremism (using mass media or the internet)); “Vladislav Chistov's case on Incitement to extremism”. Sentenced on December 6, 2024.

In brief

Tver Oblast · Tver · Medical workers · Anti-war cases, Extremism cases

Sentence

1 year 6 months

Ban on activity, Imprisonment (open prison colony)

Verdict December 6, 2024

No information about an appeal ruling.

Charges

Full wording of the charges

Presumably, the reason for the case was aggressive comments under the post about mobilised people.

Latest event

January 1, 2025 — imprisonment begins

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Timeline

  1. · Imprisonment begins

  2. · First-instance verdict

    guilty verdict · 1 year 6 months

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

  4. · Persecution begins

    Vladislav Chistov's case on Incitement to extremism

Criminal case

Vladislav Chistov's case on Incitement to extremism

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

Thematic group: Anti-war case

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

Resident of Tver, city in central Russia, plastic surgeon, director of "Oblik" clinic. No later than November 2024, a case was brought against him for calls to extremism, presumably because of aggressive comments under posts about mobilised people. On 6 December, 2024, Chistov received an allegedly non-custodial sentence.

All fields of the record
Citizenship
Russia

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