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Gennady Deryagin

Being clarifiedChecked October 18, 2026

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

  • the 3 years term (verdict of November 8, 2024), counted from January 1, 2023 without credit for time served, ended on December 31, 2025.

Gennady Deryagin, born 1958, Arkhangelsk Oblast. Charges: Article 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government agencies, or mercenaries); “The case of Gennady Deryagin on discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”. Sentence (November 8, 2024): 3 years of deprivation of liberty, taking into account the previous sentence - 12 years of deprivation of liberty in a…

In brief

Arkhangelsk Oblast, Moscow · Moscow, NULL · Teachers · Anti-war cases

Sentence

3 years

of deprivation of liberty, taking into account the previous sentence - 12 years of deprivation of liberty in a strict regime penal colony

Verdict November 8, 2024

No information about an appeal ruling.

Charges

Full wording of the charges

In January 2023, the court considered a protocol drawn up on Deryagin under a similar administrative article (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences), the result is unknown.

Latest event

November 8, 2024 — first-instance verdict

The court delivered a guilty verdict: 3 years.

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Timeline

  1. · First-instance verdict

    guilty verdict · 3 years

  2. · Persecution begins

    The case of Gennady Deryagin on discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

  3. · Preventive measure: pre-trial detention

Criminal case

The case of Gennady Deryagin on discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

Case number
01-0464/2024

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

Founder of criminal sexology, former lecturer at the Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Northern State Medical University. In October 2023, he was sentenced to ten years in a strict regime penal colony in a case of sexualised violence against a minor. No later than November 2023, a case was initiated against him for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces. On 8 November 2024, he was sentenced to three years in this case. Taking into account the previous sentence, the total term was 12 years in a strict regime penal colony.

All fields of the record
Citizenship
Russia
Preventive measures
pre-trial detention

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