Artemii Doronin
Artemii Doronin, born 2008, Saint Petersburg. Charges: Article 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Terrorist attack (by a group or with serious consequences)); “Schoolboys' case of a relay cabinet arson in St. Petersburg”. Sentence (May 6, 2024): 2 years' imprisonment in a juvenile detention centre; involuntary psychiatric treatment and supervision. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since September 1, 2023; place of detention: Pre-trial detention centre No. 5, Perm Krai. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, September 19, 2025.
In brief
Saint Petersburg · Saint Petersburg · Schoolchildren · Terrorism cases
Sentence
2 years
imprisonment in a juvenile detention centre; involuntary psychiatric treatment and supervision
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Terrorist attack (by a group or with serious consequences)
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, around June 2023, he joined the Telegram channels Legion 'Freedom of Russia' and Partisans in Rus, as well as joined "other chat rooms with active correspondence of users with anti-Russian orientation, calls for armed struggle against the current government". "No later than 11 September 2023", he entered into correspondence with a user under the nickname "Magavk" through the messenger Telegram, they discussed explosions and arsons. "Magavk" suggested that Doronin should commit arson of "transport infrastructure" and instructed him how to make a "Molotov cocktail". Doronin enlisted Egor Lauskis to participate in the arson. "Doronin and Lauskis distributed tasks among each other, according to which Doronin was to procure a bottle, petrol, a fragment of cloth and a lighter, and Lauskis was to procure styrofoam, i.e. the necessary components to make a bottle with a homemade incendiary mixture as an instrument of crime". On 16 September 2023, together with Lauskis, he intended to set fire to a locomotive at the Lakhta station in St. Petersburg on the instructions of "a curator actively supporting the Armed Forces of Ukraine", but, failing to find it, "threw a bottle with burning liquid into a relay cabinet", thereby causing property damage in the amount of 758 rubles 18 kopecks. According to the persecuted, they made the appearance of arson out of fear of threats from "Magavk".
Latest event
September 19, 2025 — recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, September 19, 2025
Timeline
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 2 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
Schoolboys' case of a relay cabinet arson in St. Petersburg
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Criminal case
Schoolboys' case of a relay cabinet arson in St. Petersburg
Other defendants in the case
- Egor Lauskis — At large, 4 years
Write a letter
Facility: Pre-trial detention centre No. 5, Perm Krai
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
614056, Пермский край, г. Пермь, ул. Соликамская, д. 246а, ФКУ СИЗО-5 ГУФСИН России по Пермскому краю, Доронин Артемий Анатольевич, 2008 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
A resident of St. Petersburg, a schoolboy. Detained on 18 September 2023 on suspicion of committing a terrorist act on the railway due to an attempt to set fire to a relay cabinet. During the search he was seized a phone and a laptop allegedly with the Ukrainian coat of arms and flag on the screensaver. The investigation claims that in the browser search history he was found "numerous queries on topics praising Hitler and Ukrainian nationalism, Nazi leaders Stepan Bender and Volodymyr Zelensky." On 6 May 2024, he was sentenced to two years in a juvenile detention centre. While he was in the colony, a case of participation in mass riots was opened against him.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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