Marat Gelman
Marat Gelman, born 1960. Charges: Article 205.4 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Organisation of a terrorist community and participation in it); Article 278, Russian Criminal Code (Violent seizure of power or alteration of the constitutional order); “The case of Anti-War Committee of Russia”. Status: not in Russia.
In brief
Artists · Anti-war cases, Terrorism cases, Cases against "foreign agents"
Sentence
No information about a verdict.
Charges
- Article 205.4 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Organisation of a terrorist community and participation in it
- Article 278, Russian Criminal Code — Violent seizure of power or alteration of the constitutional order
Full wording of the charges
The reason for the case was the adoption on 30 April 2023 of the "Berlin Declaration" on the need for a change of power in Russia and the creation in October 2025, with the participation of the movement in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, of a "platform of Russian democratic forces".
Latest event
January 1, 2025 — persecution begins
The case of Anti-War Committee of Russia
Timeline
· Persecution begins
The case of Anti-War Committee of Russia
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Added to the register of “foreign agents”
Criminal case
The case of Anti-War Committee of Russia
Other defendants in the case
- Sergei Aleksashenko — Not in Russia
- Leonid Gozman — Not in Russia
- Dmitry Gudkov — Not in Russia
- Sergei Guriev — Not in Russia
- Boris Zimin — Not in Russia
- Vladimir Kara-Murza — Not in Russia
- Garry Kasparov — Not in Russia
- Mikhail Kasianov — Not in Russia
- Evgenii Kiselev — Not in Russia
- Mikhail Kokorich — Not in Russia
- Evgenii Kunin — Not in Russia
- Elena Lukyanova — Not in Russia
- Kirill Martynov — Not in Russia
- Yuri Pivovarov — Not in Russia
- Maxim Reznik — Not in Russia
- Artur Smolianinov — Not in Russia
- Mikhail Khodorkovsky — Not in Russia
- Evgenii Chichvarkin — Not in Russia
- Konstantin Chumakov — Not in Russia
- Anastasia Shevchenko — Not in Russia
- Viktor Shenderovich — Not in Russia
- Ekaterina Shulman — Not in Russia
Thematic group: Anti-war case
Details and sources
Full summary
A gallery owner, a curator of art projects. At the end of December 2021, he was included in the register of "foreign agents". In December 2022 it became known that Gelman was put on the wanted list under an unknown article. On 14 November 2024, he was included in the list of extremists and terrorists of Rosfinmonitoring (Russian Financial Monitoring Agency) with a mark that is put to those prosecuted under terrorist articles. On 22 November it was reported that a case of public justification of terrorism was brought against Gelman, details unknown. On 14 October 2025, the FSB reported about the initiation of a case against Gelman and other members of the "Anti-War Committee of Russia" for violent seizure of power and organisation of activities of a terrorist community. The reason was the adoption of the "Berlin Declaration" on the need for a change of power in Russia.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 205.4 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.