Alexey Filugin
Alexey Filugin, Kurgan Oblast. Charges: Article 207.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Dissemination of false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government…); Article 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government agencies, or mercenaries); “Alexei Filugin's case of "fakes" and discrediting the Russian Armed Forces”. Sentence (September 28, 2023): 1 year 6 months of compulsory labour with withholding of wages in the amount of 20%. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, August 11, 2025.
In brief
Kurgan Oblast · village of Tselinnoye · Farmers · Anti-war cases
Sentence
1 year 6 months of compulsory labour with withholding of wages in the amount of 20%.
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 207.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Dissemination of false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government agencies, or mercenaries
- Article 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government agencies, or mercenaries
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, "in the period from March to April this year, he repeatedly posted on his page in the social network information discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation".
Latest event
August 11, 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, August 11, 2025
Timeline
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Imprisonment ends
· Persecution ends
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict
· Persecution begins
Alexei Filugin's case of "fakes" and discrediting the Russian Armed Forces
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Criminal case
Alexei Filugin's case of "fakes" and discrediting the Russian Armed Forces
- Case number
- 1-46/2023
Thematic group: Anti-war case
Details and sources
Full summary
In June 2022, a court fined Filugin 35,000 rubles under the administrative article on discrediting the Russian army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences) because of several publications and comments on his VKontakte page condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
On 3 July 2023, Filugin was taken into custody in the case of deliberately spreading false information about the Russian Armed Forces and discrediting them. In the request for such a preventive measure, the investigators stated that Filugin lives in the territory bordering Kazakhstan, where he is from, and, according to operational information, expressed his intention to flee there.
On 28 September 2023, Filugin was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour.
Presumably, he served his sentence in April 2025.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 207.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.