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Alexandr Dovydenkov

At largeChecked October 18, 2026

Alexandr Dovydenkov, born 1996, Samara Oblast. Charges: Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Public incitement to terrorism or justification of terrorism (using media or the internet)); “Alexandr Dovydenkov's case”. Sentence: 1 year. Status: at large.

In brief

Samara Oblast · Tolyatti · Terrorism cases

Sentence

1 year

Imprisonment (general regime)

No information about an appeal ruling.

Charges

Full wording of the charges

According to expert findings by the Federal Budgetary Institution of Forensic Expertise of the Russian Ministry of Justice (report No. 3665/5-1 of 24 December 2018), material posted at 2:11 a.m. on 31 October 2018 on a Twitter account under the username “Kid on the drive (fucked speedlimit)” contained linguistic indicators justifying the actions of a young man who carried out a suicide bombing at the FSB building in Arkhangelsk.

Latest event

January 1, 2020 — persecution ends

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Timeline

  1. · Persecution ends

  2. · Preventive measure: house arrest

  3. · Persecution begins

    Alexandr Dovydenkov's case

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

Criminal case

Alexandr Dovydenkov's case

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

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

On 14 February 2019, criminal proceedings were brought against Dovydenkov on charges of publicly justifying terrorism. The case stemmed from a statement he made about Mikhail Zhlobitsky, who had carried out a suicide bombing at an FSB building in the Arkhangelsk Region.

On 28 March, Dovydenkov was summoned for questioning and placed under house arrest the following day. He was subsequently sentenced to one year in a general-regime penal colony and was released in 2020.

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