Dmitrii Chuvilin
Dmitrii Chuvilin, born 1984, Bashkortostan. Charges: Article 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in a terrorist community); Article 226 part 4 item a applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code (Preparation for the theft or extortion of weapons, ammunition, explosives, and explosive devices…); Article 278 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Preparing for violent seizure of power or alteration of the constitutional order); “The case of a Marxist club in Ufa”. Sentenced on December 16, 2025. Status: imprisoned.
In brief
Bashkortostan · Ufa · Officials · Terrorism cases
Sentence
Imprisonment (strict regime), Fine
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in a terrorist community
- Article 226 part 4 item a applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Preparation for the theft or extortion of weapons, ammunition, explosives, and explosive devices committed by an organized group of people
- Article 278 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Preparing for violent seizure of power or alteration of the constitutional order
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, the Ufa Marxist circle, where Chuvilin attended classes, was planning a violent seizure of power. The investigation considers Pavel Matisov, a member of the circle, to be the organiser. The investigation considers three texts and two videos published on VKontakte in 2019-2021 to be evidence of preparations for an armed seizure of power. In one of the videos the programme of the circle is read out, in the second one a circle’s member states that Russia is "occupied by capitalists" and calls for the overthrow of capitalism. A participant of the meetings, Sergei Sapozhnikov, who wrote a report to the FSB on the others, claimed that they discussed in his presence how to procure weapons "with the use of violence".
Latest event
December 16, 2025 — first-instance verdict
The court delivered a guilty verdict.
Timeline
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Persecution begins
The case of a Marxist club in Ufa
Criminal case
The case of a Marxist club in Ufa
- Case number
- 2-8/2025 (2-30/2024; 2-150/2023;)
Other defendants in the case
- Rinat Burkeev — Imprisoned, 16 years
- Alexei Dmitriev — Imprisoned, 20 years
- Iurii Efimov — Imprisoned, 18 years
- Pavel Matisov — Imprisoned, 22 years
Thematic group: The case of Marxist club in Ufa
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Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
623850, Свердловская обл., г. Ирбит, ул. Кирова, д.29а, ФКУ СИЗО-2 ГУФСИН России по Свердловской области, Чувилин Дмитрий Александрович, 1984 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
A former member of the Kurultai (legislative assembly) of Bashkortostan, he voted against constitutional amendments in 2020.
On 24 March 2022, a search was conducted at his home and he was placed in custody. Chuvilin was accused of participating in the activities of a terrorist community, preparing for seizure of power and attempting to steal or extort weapons.
Later he spoke of threats from the FSB, reported on the use of violence against him and other defendants in the case during transportation to the court, as well as that investigators had put pressure on him in the pre-trial detention centre, forcing him to speed up his study of the case files.
According to Mediazona, testimony against the circle's participants was given by Sergei Sapozhnikov, who also took part in the work of the circle and is listed as a witness in the case. According to him, the circle was preparing to seize power.
On 16 December 2025, Chuvilin was sentenced to a 20-year term in a strict regime penal colony
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Preventive measures
- pre-trial detention
Other people prosecuted under Article 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.