Andrei Glukhov
Andrei Glukhov, born 2004, Volgograd Oblast. Charges: Article 275, Russian Criminal Code (Treason against the state); “Andrei Glukhov's case”. Sentence (July 25, 2025): 12 years' imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since October 9, 2024; place of detention: Penal colony No. 2, Ulyanovsk Oblast. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, January 18, 2026.
In brief
Volgograd Oblast · Volgograd · Students
Sentence
12 years
imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony
First instance, May 29, 2025: 12 years
Charges
- Article 275, Russian Criminal Code — Treason against the state
Full wording of the charges
Presumably, the reason for the case was the transfer of money to Ukraine.
Latest event
January 18, 2026 — recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, January 18, 2026
Timeline
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Appeal ruling
sentence changed · 12 years
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 12 years
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №5 (SIZO-5) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation for the Volgograd Oblast
· Persecution begins
Andrei Glukhov's case
Criminal case
Andrei Glukhov's case
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Facility: Penal colony No. 2, Ulyanovsk Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
433300, Ульяновская область, г. Новоульяновск, пос. Северный, ФКУ «ИК № 2 УФСИН Ульяновской области», Глухов Андрей Эдуардович, 2004 г.р.
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Full summary
A resident of Volgograd, a student at the Volgograd Polytechnic College. In September 2024, his home was searched. After being interrogated by the FSB, he was released, but in October he was detained again and taken into custody on charges of high treason. According to his father, who spoke with "Mediazona," the reason was that Glukhov had met someone online who introduced himself as a Ukrainian citizen and claimed to be collecting signatures "to accelerate negotiations" between the two countries. He sent the student a bank account number in Ukraine, and Glukhov transferred 3,000 rubles (according to his mother, cited by media "Sibir.Realii," it was 1,450 rubles). Glukhov's father added that the case included his son’s correspondence with this individual, in which the student expressed his desire for the war to end and for peace to come soon. On May 29, 2025, Glukhov was sentenced to 12 years in a high-security penal colony.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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