Ilya Florinsky
Ilya Florinsky, born 1988, Oryol Oblast. Charges: Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Public incitement to terrorism or justification of terrorism (using media or the internet)); “The case of Ilya Florinsky on the justification of terrorism”. Sentence (April 19, 2023): 6 years imprisonment, prohibition to administer websites for 3 years. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since August 1, 2022; place of detention: Penal colony No. 5, Kaluga Oblast. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, February 28, 2025.
In brief
Oryol Oblast · Oryol · Entrepreneurs · Terrorism cases
Sentence
6 years
imprisonment, prohibition to administer websites for 3 years
Upheld August 14, 2023
Charges
- Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Public incitement to terrorism or justification of terrorism (using media or the internet)
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, he reposted a video "Scheme of liberation from the regime" in VKontakte and Telegram with calls "for Muscovites to take to the streets and seize the Kremlin" and an anti-vaxxer post calling for the revival of a "socially oriented state".
Latest event
February 28, 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, February 28, 2025
Timeline
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 6 years
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Oryol Oblast
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
The case of Ilya Florinsky on the justification of terrorism
Criminal case
The case of Ilya Florinsky on the justification of terrorism
Write a letter
Facility: Penal colony No. 5, Kaluga Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
249275, Калужская область, г. Сухиничи, ФКУ «ИК № 5 УФСИН по Калужской области», Флоринский Илья Владимирович, 1988 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
Administrator of the group "Citizens of the USSR Orel". The case was initiated in March 2022. Initially it was reported that the case was initiated under the article on calls to extremism, but later it became known that Florinsky was charged with public justification of terrorism.
Ilya was held in the case as a suspect. In March 2022, he was interrogated, after which the investigator served him with a notice on the need to appear to face charges. However, he did not appear at the investigative measures, after which he was declared wanted. In August, Florinsky was detained and taken into custody.
The group "Citizens of the USSR. Orel" had been blocked for two years by the time the criminal case was initiated. Florinsky claimed that he first saw the video during an interrogation.
On 19 April 2023 he was sentenced to 6 years in prison, in August 2023 the appeal left the sentence unchanged.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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